From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 6 22:14:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from p1.cs.ohiou.edu (p1.cs.ohiou.edu [132.235.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C7C37B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 22:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frussell@p1.cs.ohiou.edu) Received: from localhost (frussell@localhost) by p1.cs.ohiou.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA01709; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:14:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:14:18 -0500 (EST) From: Russell Francis X-Sender: frussell@p1 To: Super Saijin Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: About Unix 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 > Ok, I just read a million tutorials. I feel very VERY stupid now. Don't, you knew enough to come to the right place for your questions. > What is Unix. (A newb explenation please). I like to think of Unix as a family of operating systems that all have a similar feel and philosophy behind the way that certain tasks are done. Within that family there are several flavors. Some of the more popular ones being Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris. To get a feel for how many different flavors there are of Unix look at http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu and click on "Unix Flavors" > How do I run unix? Pick a flavor, Linux is probably the best choice for someone who is very unfamiliar with Unix systems. Get an installation CD and put it in your drive and away you go, Just like installing Windows ;-) >Is FreeBSD entirely > Unix? what makes it Unix? >How does Unix work? Extremely well! >what is a kernel? A kernel is the guts of an Operating System it is responsible for interacting with hardware and other really cool low-level stuff. > what is a > shell? A shell is the Unix equivalent to a DOS prompt, but a hell of alot more powerful. If you are not familiar with DOS, it is place where commands are entered to run programs or list files Hope this was helpful and feel free to write back with anymore questions -Russ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message