From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 19 8:54:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F4437B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C6643EC5 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 08:54:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAB7B55; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:50:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 75DF52FDB3F; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:54:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:54:36 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Mark Gladman Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Err.. to be honest, I'm not sure what to put here. Message-ID: <20021219165436.GQ45336@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Gladman , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org References: <3E01DC28.905@fantoma.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E01DC28.905@fantoma.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org # mark@fantoma.net / 2002-12-20 01:48:08 +1100: > 'Lo to whomever reads this! > > I've got a little question.. I've read through the FreeBSD handbook, and > also purchased and read the book "FreeBSD Unleashed", and after > finishing both documents (well.. all the relevent bits of the documents, > since at this stage I'm just setting up a network gateway/firewall and a > workstation). I found that I just flew through the documents in just a > few days, and am thinking "Have I missed something major here?" > And am pretty much wondering.. well.. have I missed anything? :) > It seems like I can do pretty much anything (edit files in /etc/, > install ports, recompile the kernel, configure the GUI and installed > programmes, setup networking and smbfs (although I've still got to get > around to setting up Samba itself)) > > So.. err.. yeah.. any help or comments would be greatly appreciated :) heh, looks too easy to be true, or what? :) hmm, I haven't read a single dead tree book about *BSD, and always have read parts of the documentation I needed as the need arose, so I don't know if you should be scared or not. (they most probably *don't* want you scared away :) what I *do* know is that I spent most of the time at the beginning with perceivably tiny things: get backspace and delete keys behave the same in all apps I use, reclaim that motherfscking crazy vim, configure my shell to save two keystrokes in a command I enter about 2000x a day, etc. admittedly, this part was the most fun, and the most frustrating time of my FreeBSD usage (it is my first unix). so... I think you'll find out it's not as easy as it looks from reading the books, but smaller the issue the bigger PITA (and perhaps quite often the less documented) it is... -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message