From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 15:39:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 420C5106566B for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:39:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mh@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.kernel32.de (crivens.terrorteam.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 111698FC1C for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:39:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mh@kernel32.de) Received: from www.terrorteam.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.kernel32.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0340B0290; Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:21:10 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:21:10 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer To: Passive PROFITS In-Reply-To: <252055.77706.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <252055.77706.qm@web35604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-Sender: mh@kernel32.de User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-rc2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question - about newbie user support X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:39:33 -0000 Hi, there was already a very complete response from Max, however, I'd like to comment one part anyway, On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:15:30 -0700 (PDT), Passive PROFITS wrote: > Anyway - any pointers to something more at my level > appreciated, if there is anything in existence. I do > appreciate I'm most likely asking my first stupid > question to any FreeBSD list. Doesn't seem like an OS > people arrive at without first being a bit of an > expert, which I am patently, not! > Don't be afraid, IMO FreeBSD is not an OS where you need to be a Unix expert before. In fact, I switched from the Windows World (used from 1990 - yeah, Dr DOS, MS DOS - to 1998) directly to the FreeBSD world. Not even a pit-stop with any Linux distribution. So I started using FreeBSD without any unix know-how. Whut? I have to build a kernel? How? Why? Heeelp. Stick to the handbook, ask polite questions and you'll be up and running :-) After learning how to use a Unix system with FreeBSD, I was forced to use some Linux distributions (forced by my employer, compensated by a big check). However, I always came back to FreeBSD. It's just my Unix of choice, and probably it will always be :) To cut it short: Don't be afraid, just start reading the handbook, it really helps. freebsd-questions@ will be the mailing list of choice to ask questions. best regards, Marian PS.: In fact, learning how to use FreeBSD helped me big times to understand how to operate Linux systems. Nowadays I'm babysitting approx 600 linux boxes (Debian) at work. However, my desktop at work still is a FreeBSD box :) [mah@siteop-26] <~>uname -a [16:19:43 on 08-03-26] FreeBSD siteop-26.mobile.rz 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 12 11:42:44 CET 2008 root@siteop-26:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386