From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 14:30:37 2005 Return-Path: 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 8C7B816A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:30:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web30905.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30905.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3403D43D39 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:30:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcd_advisory@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20050106143036.61080.qmail@web30905.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.28.117.121] by web30905.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:30:36 PST Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 06:30:36 -0800 (PST) From: Mervin McDougall To: freebsd-newbies MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: The Learning Curve X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:30:37 -0000 I have to admitt that coming from the Linux world, namely Slackware linux, I was plese that the init system for freebsd and Slackware was very much similar. It helped make the transition faster and better. But, what really won me over as a newbie was the information that was provided on the freebsd website. The handbook was definitely a good read. I found myself having to go online to read information about the different linuxes I encountered all over. Because most of the linuxes include parts of of their base system which come from all over. In fact when it came to setting up my interent connections, there is no one standard from Slackware, for interent via phoneline, you can use this software, for PPPoE you use this other and so on. But the standardisation done with FreeBSD is a god sent. It helped me get up and started quickly and prevented me from searching through numerous different manuals about how to set up xy and z. I think my learning curve on a freebsd system has been a lot steeper than on any of the previous linux systems simply because everything comes from the same source. That's just good stuff!! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250