Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:24:19 -0700 From: ericr <ericr@clue.com> To: "Jason Sheets" <shadowalker@rmci.net>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About introducing newbies to FreeBSD Message-ID: <200011012024.eA1KOJf19302@mutant.clue.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:12:26 MST
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: I recently recommended FreeBSD to a friend who was interested in joining the : *NIX world. : : He had never used either Linux or any other form of *nix but went ahead and : bought the set from WC and read the handbook. : : He was able to get it to install correctly the first time without difficulty : but had hardware problems that prevented some things from working. : : I myself enjoyed a painless (almost) first install of FreeBSD but even if it : wasn't I'd still use it. : : I started on Linux (RedHat, then Slackware, then SuSE and back to Slackware) : but never could find the right distro for me. : : FreeBSD was a perfect fit from the moment I installed it. : : One thing that Slackware does have that could really help users is an : official forum where questions can be posted. : : It is an efficient way for everyone to ask questions and quickly get them : answered. Uh, there's freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, there's the newsgroup(s) comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.*, there's the bug database (ok, you can't ask questions of it, but you can search for similar problems and see if you've found a bug), and probably several other pretty official ways to ask questions. the first two have usually taken care of my issues, although not always the way I might have liked. ;-) ericr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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