From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 19 16:47:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01074 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:47:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01067 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:47:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA18375; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:16:15 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id JAA21978; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:15:50 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980820091549.J13676@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:15:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: c9707010@alinga.newcastle.edu.au, FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD References: <35DB134F.14A17C@reincarnate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35DB134F.14A17C@reincarnate.com>; from Stewart Heckenberg on Thu, Aug 20, 1998 at 04:02:57AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 20 August 1998 at 4:02:57 +1000, Stewart Heckenberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently installed FreeBSD. I use UNIX at Newcastle University, and > I wanted to install a UNIX clone on my PC at home. I chose FreeBSD over > Linux, as I found the online documentation was much better, and FreeBSD > seems a "truer" UNIX clone with more emphasis on a hands-on, > under-the-hood attitude. > > I'm hoping to further my UNIX and programming skills using FreeBSD, and > hopefully I'll one day delete Win95 for good - hoorah! :) I'll be doing a one-day workshop on installing and configuring FreeBSD at the AUUG Winter conference in Sydney in September. See http://www.auug.org.au/winter/auug98/ for more details. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message