From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 08:36:47 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA13177 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:36:47 -0800 Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (freenet.edmonton.ab.ca [198.161.206.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA13169 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:36:46 -0800 Received: by freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/FEAC1.002) id AA30311; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:23:53 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:23:52 -0700 (MST) From: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Tutorials--Linux versus FreeBSD for Newbies? Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm not a computer newbie, but I am *very* much a UN*X newbie. I've installed FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM and have been trying to teach myself about it. I'm finding it very slow going (still don't have X running yet or any ordinary users defined...). I bought "UNIX Unleased" which seems a very good tutorial, but it's for another flavour of UNIX and the differences with FreeBSD (especially in admin.) are enough to retard my progress. The FreeBSD man pages are some help, but they are very dense for a newbie. What I really need is a tutorial treatment of FreeBSD, but it seems this doesn't exist. At least that's my distinct impression of the responses I received on this list a month or two ago. Recently I was in our biggest local computer book store and they have several very fat books on Linux; these books appear to be tutorials, at least to a degree. I am lead to wonder if a newbie such as me wouldn't do better with Linux than with FreeBSD, just because of the availability of these tutorial books. I wonder if I shouldn't give up on FreeBSD and go with Linux instead. What are your thoughts on this? Why are there tutorial books for Linux and apparently none for FreeBSD? Many thanks! <> ------------------------------------------------- Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada