From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 30 11:38:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AADD237B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:38:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA57420; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:34:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:34:51 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Rick Hamell Cc: David Johnson , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie packages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rick, which books are coming out soon? Urban, Michael: Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 21 Days has been cancelled. Anderson, Annelise: FreeBSD for Dummies has been cancelled. The Addison-Wesley book (FreeBSDDiary folks) is in process of a new proposal/outline being prepared....so it's not quite imminent. Lehey's next book is Advanced BSD System Administration.... FreeBSD Handbook is the handbook in chunks.... Middlestaedt, Ted is an advanced book (as I recall, proofreading etc. is done so this should be out in a few weeks, but won't serve this purpose). Anything else? Annelise On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > What about a list of appropriate and/or recommended packages to install > > for newbies? Many Linux distributions have recommended packages for > > beginners, which are selected by default. Instead of making the brand > > new user select from two dozen text editors, one is selected by default. > > With consumer-oriented operating systems (windows/mac), the packages are > > I dimly remeber seeing something just like this... but of course I > can't find a link right now. I know that at least one of the FreeBSD books > coming out soon has such a list. I'd love to see something like this > again, and I'm willing to host it on my site too if needed. :) (With > proper credit of course.) Sue may even be willing to add it to the > official FreeBSD newbies site, which would be even better. :) > > Rick > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message