From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 24 21:25:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09557 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from miro.bestweb.net (miro.bestweb.net [209.94.100.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09551 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from prw@bestweb.net) Received: from bofh (fwibbly@bofh.ircadmin.org [209.94.111.12]) by miro.bestweb.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01911 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:25:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980325002508.008c5250@pop.bestweb.net> X-Sender: prw@pop.bestweb.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 00:25:08 -0500 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Paul Wilson Subject: Re: Let's compare notes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:11 PM 3/25/98 +1100, you wrote: > >Right after you installed FreeBSD, logged in and sat there at >the prompt, what's the first thing you ever did? :-) I typed "man pppd" and tried to figure out how to connect to my ISP. > >Then what was the first thing you had to sit down and learn about? Everything. Why I had to compile the kernel to see my modem, why my hard drive light wanted to stay on constantly.... why ls -1 / | xargs rm -rf as root was a bad thing. I'd just started working as support for my ISP when I first installed FreeBSD, so I knew a few of the basics. > >How did you you learn it? What resources (documents, friends, whatever) >did you use? How did you find the resources? My senior sysadmin was great, apart from he's a little bit of a BOFH. www.freebsd.org was good, the man pages were good, the docs that came with the programs I downloaded were good. > >Did you enjoy it? How long did it take to learn? > It was great. I love a challenge. After about a year of FreeBSD, I'm confident with just about anything, with the help of man pages, even if some of them are cryptic. I'd do anything to get away from a Microslop product (I'd install FreeBSD right now if it would support my Plug and Pray BitSURFR Pro ISA modem) Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message