From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 22:47: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [212.49.74.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3ED237B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:46:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (FreeBSD)) id 16R6Ig-000IIW-00; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:45:26 +0300 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:45:26 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ulv@mondenet.com Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <20020117064526.GF63351@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ulv@mondenet.com References: <000201c19e25$3abfa020$5dd8fea9@domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000201c19e25$3abfa020$5dd8fea9@domain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: God did not create the world in seven days X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: XFCE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 9:40AM up 1 day, 15:07, 1 user, load averages: 1.29, 1.27, 1.30 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * jaime Aguirre [20020117 09:27]: wrote: > Hello, > please help me with this one; > Which is the flavor or Version of Unix that if I new it, it was going to > make my FreeBSD learning easier? That _must_ be FreeBSD itself because it doesn't have a precursor (sorry my English is going stale). FreeBSD is much easier to even install I can assure you. I've meant to try OpenBSD and it's a nightmare for me going past their fdisk/disklabel. Another thing, there are two commands in FreeBSD (Unix generally): 1. apropos 2. man While they may not be so friendly to a newbie they can start you off. Of course there is also a list for newbies (I guess) where you can ask newbie questions. This list is also of much help if they believe you've done what it takes at your level to tackle an issue before asking (that is what I've learnt while here). So start by man man man apropos Look at the handbook (http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook) and sometimes a search on the net will also help. Welcome. -Wash S y s t e m s A d m i n. -- Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: 254 2 313985-9 Fax: 254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: 254 72 743 223 GSM: 254 733 744 121 This sig is McQ! :-) ++ No good deed goes unpunished. -- Clare Boothe Luce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message