From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 5 08:57:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F9516A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:57:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakemtao08.cox.net (lakemtao08.cox.net [68.1.17.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAFEE43D31 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:57:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com) Received: from vixen42 ([68.109.49.234]) by lakemtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with SMTP id <20040305165744.YENW12895.lakemtao08.cox.net@vixen42>; Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:57:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 08:54:51 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox To: "Loren M. Lang" Message-Id: <20040305085451.173c09b9@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <20040305081609.GA1378@alzatex.com> References: <20040305081609.GA1378@alzatex.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:57:45 -0000 On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:16:09 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" wrote: > I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who > have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be > setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating > whether I should use FreeBSD or some Linux distro like mandrake or > debian. I will be there most of the time to help if needed as this > is for work and will not be his home desktop, at least not yet. He > only have some experience with using dos and windoze, but he does > have some technical background with computers. FreeBSD was my the first UNIX like system I've ever used... I found the documentation to be very useful. As long as your willing to read, it is easy :)