From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 28 8: 5:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E14A15463 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 08:05:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-108.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.108]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA04494; Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:05:06 -0600 Message-ID: <3868E124.BCA990F2@journalstar.com> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 10:11:16 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juanenoman@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting point? References: <0.5fc2deaf.25997b08@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I found the best way to learn about unix is to get a machine and put FreeBSD on it. There is so much more you can learn when you actally administrate a machine, rather than just having a user level account. If you royally mess something up, no big deal, as a last resort you can always reload the operating system and learn from your mistake. (Windows NT administration is something like this.) I see you're a student which implies your strapped for cash. I run FreeBSD on a 486-100 with 32 Mb of RAM and have no problems running X. FreeBSD will run with decent performance on machines that would otherwise be relegated to the dumpster. There are a bunch of great web sites for information about FreeBSD. Just to name a few: http://www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.ugu.com Once you get your OS up-and-running the command you'll use the most is 'man'. This mailing list is also a great resource when you hit a dead-end. Good luck, Tony Wells Juanenoman@aol.com wrote: > > Hello, I am attempting to learn unix, db2, and linux. Can you steer me in > the right direction. I studied visual basic and c++ for a semester each , at > Cypress college in California. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank > you ... > > Clint Lillard > PO BOX 5012 > Anaheim, Calif. 92814 714-484-3922 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message