From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 17:49:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E02C37B4CF for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA61710; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:47:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 20:47:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Jim Jones Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Statement & Question to the group. In-Reply-To: <007501c05fba$160d4ca0$2663fea9@buf.adelphia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jim Jones wrote: > First of all, I want to thank those who replied with good info. As to > where I can download Unix and what files to get, it looked like a big > mess to me. Newbie I guess (with this site). Please wrap your lines. 70 or 80 characters would be nice. See http://www.lemis.com/email.html As to the mess, I'd say it's much easier if you can dedicate a machine to playing around with FreeBSD. Find an old PC (486? Pentium 90?) which is no longer useful for Some Other OS (tm), and dedicate it to FreeBSD. I did this 2.5 years ago, and now that machine is a firewall/router/web server/mail server etc. > I am very excited in learning all aspects of Unix. I have a lot of > knowledge in other areas but not unix. What is the suggestion of the > day for someone like me who wants to learn ALL the tricks, commands > (of different systems), anything and everything that will enhance my > knowledge and ability to achieve what I desire the > most......Excellence !!! You can't learn "all" unless you're much smarter and more motivated (and have lots more time) than most people. The body of knowledge is *enormous.* For a start, try http://www.ugu.com/ - they actually have a "tip of the day" section. Also, don't underestimate the value of a good book. If I could only have one unix book, it would be _Essential_System_Administration_ by Frisch (O'Reilly). Also invaluable: _The_Complete_FreeBSD_ by Greg Lehey (Walnut Creek); _TCP/IP_Network_Administration_ by Hunt (O'Reilly); _DNS_and_BIND_ by Albitz & Liu (O'Reilly). HTH. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message