From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jan 19 23:21:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hme0.mailrouter02.sprint.ca (hme0.mailrouter02.sprint.ca [207.107.250.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140551533E for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 23:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from leandro@capnasty.org) Received: from inverness.sprint.ca (spc-isp-tor-58-19-10.sprint.ca [149.99.115.10]) by hme0.mailrouter02.sprint.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA08932 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 02:21:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200001200721.CAA08932@hme0.mailrouter02.sprint.ca> From: "Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro" Organization: Capital of Nasty Electronic Magazine To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 02:21:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Looking for suggestions. X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello fellow FreeBSD users, I'm new to the FreeBSD world, as I am attempting to escape the Microsoft world, and I've been trying a combination of both Linux and FreeBSD. With the risk of being shot on this list, at the moment I find myself more at ease with Linux, but FreeBSD has proven to be much more stable and a lot more secure (as far as I can tell). As soon as I can get better with it, I will probably migrate completely to it. Anyway, I am new. I am running a small network, and I decided to install FreeBSD 3.2 on a vacant P66 with an 800MB HD and 36 MB of RAM, mostly to run it as my mail server, and with the excuse learn both about Sendmail (yes I hear that there are better, but I'd like to try it out and put my Sendmail book by OReilly to use when I can't sleep). My network is not connected to the internet as of yet, it is just several machines hooked together via TP and a hub, and eventually I'll plop a modem into my gateway. For now I am happy like this, as I am learning plenty despite the steep curve. Enough ranting: can someone give me a brief suggestion that a new user should be aware of? Anything will be helpful. I just started reading the posts on this list and I must say, they have been really good for someone like me that is starting from scratch. And I am also slowly going through the FreeBSD website, checking their documentation and stuff. Thanks. I hope my post wasn;t too out of place. leandro --- Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) Capital of Nasty Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471 Editor in Chief - http://www.capnasty.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message