From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Feb 10 15:37:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7191A37B41A for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 15:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from 209-122-205-80.s334.tnt2.clmb.md.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.205.80] helo=ljgms2k) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #10) id 16a3XD-0005vu-00 for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:37:27 -0500 Message-ID: <000501c1b28b$fb806ae0$50cd7ad1@ljgms2k> From: "leegold" To: Subject: arrgh squared Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:37:59 -0500 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 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I find FreeBsd too complicated. I've bought all the books been at it for two years, and I still don't feel I have a grasp on simple things, like installing new programs, and ungrading. I'm constantly amazed at the knowlegde people have in the mail groups. I have this broken X from trying to upgrade - and all I can do is blindly follow the instructions given to me. When I first started w/FreeBsd my initial reaction was: were is the documentation? I found/find myself using Linux books to get a grasp. I bought Unleashed but try to understand what make world does, try to understand cvs - what the heck's going on there? I've reread the chap. three times. A distribution tree? what? Imo, there's a kind of abstraction in the gui, the docs, the way things are explained - that is good, that helps - I just do not personally experience this when using and trying to learn FreeBsd. The question is: am I learning Unix? Is this hack, and typing in cmds told to me, and the book buying, ...am I learning Unix? Do I have to take a year of C, then a course on Unix system internals, do I have to do this to understand how to fix my X? What's a wrapper? what does it do? oh thanks for telling me. Would I be better off w/Debian? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message