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> Hi,
> Im new to BSD.
> I have had some experience with Red Hat Linux and Mandrake Linux, but BSD
> seems totally different to me.
> Can someone give me a text or something that will start me off, or help me
> , or something.

http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html
	links to great sources (e.g. tutorials, handbook)
http://freebsd.peon.net/freebsd/index.html
http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/
http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html
http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD/

If you want books, the best known introductory books are:
	The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey
		-buy at Walnut Creek Cdrom, Linux Mall, etc
		-well written and very popular
	The Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD
		-free book, also extremely well written
		http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/

Various sites that may be of use:
	-FreeBSD'zine (will it re-emerge?)
		http://www.freebsdzine.org
	-FreeBSD Diary
		http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd
	-FreeBSD Rocks
		http://www.freebsdrocks.com
	-Daemon News
		http://www.daemonnews.org/
	-MakeWorld
		http://www.makeworld.com

News sites:
	-Daily Daemon News
		http://daily.daemonnews.org/
	-OS Online
		http://osonline.org/bsd/
	-Slashdot
		http://slashdot.org/index.pl?section=bsd


Those are all of my FreeBSD/general BSD links. Am I missing any? The
FreeBSD Advocacy Page (at http://freebsd.tesserae.com/) is yanking for
daily daemon News nowadays..



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