From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 18 4:29:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from radagast.wizard.net (radagast.wizard.net [206.161.15.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB3837B691 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 04:29:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tyson@stanfordalumni.org) Received: from stanfordalumni.org (tc1-s13.wizard.net [206.161.15.43]) by radagast.wizard.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA07712; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:29:03 -0400 Message-Id: <200004181129.HAA07712@radagast.wizard.net> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Cc: mlmack@speakeasy.org Subject: Re: newbies In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Apr 2000 13:34:34 -0800." <4.2.0.58.20000417132554.0094f740@mail.speakeasy.org> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:28:57 -0400 From: "Donald R. Tyson" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Check out the ``Tutorials'' section of the FreeBSD.org site. Anneliese Anderson's short article ``For People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix'' is pretty close to what you are looking for. Don Tyson > Dear Sirs, > > As one who doesn't know Unix from Eunuchs, I beg you to consider this > teaching technique. Once, instruction books started out by walking you > through a number of everyday tasks you were going to have to master. It > wasn't until you got the basics down, that theory and structure were > introduced. These days theory always comes first which often leaves the > truly ignorant more lost than they were to begin with. If someone came out > with an old fashioned manual, I might be able to learn this. Please help me > get away from Windows. > > m l mac k > > > > 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