From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 22 10:22:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow035o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1C6E37B720 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:22:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ITServices@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from adbr03860 ([213.48.196.18]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:18:16 +0000 Message-ID: <023d01c0b2fc$b583f280$12c430d5@adbr03860> Reply-To: "Stuart Duckworth" From: "Stuart Duckworth" To: , "Free BSD Newbies" References: <20010322084447.B7A463ED4@sitemail.everyone.net> Subject: Re: ide programming resourses Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:19:57 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi sphin X, Like you I am a newbie coming from MS Windows. I want to use FreeBSD eventually as a desktop but I am still finding my way round. I have installed and re-installed FreeBSD on my machine and decided now to work from the command line for a while. I started trying to install KDE desktop but have come to the conclusion that I will be better off learning about the operating system first. I plan to work out how to rebuild the kernel so that all the hardware is properly working. I am currently working my way through the FreeBSD Handbook. I have done a little programming in Visual Basic 6 and VBA. My programming, which I learnt when working for a post grad. diploma, has been mainly in Pascal, though I know fundamental C. I realise that this is not much help to you directly but, if you're anything like me, you'll be glad to know you're not alone. Good luck with your endeavours. Stuart. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message