From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 21:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AD6C37B479 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 21:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2917 invoked by uid 100); 7 Nov 2000 05:46:04 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14855.38683.937922.260918@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 23:46:03 -0600 (CST) To: Steve Leibel , jjones2k@adelphia.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Statement & Question to the group. In-Reply-To: <30119087@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Leibel types: > You want to learn ALL of it? Some of us have been at it for years Some of us have been at it for decades - and that's not enough to learn it all, because everyone out there is adding more, at a sufficient rate that just keeping up is a stretch. > and believe me nobody knows all of it. Best way to start though is > by buying a CD ROM -- either FreeBSD or (sorry for the heresy on this > mailing list) one of the Linux variants. Then install it on your > computer and you're on your way. The thread on man pages is relevant here - FreeBSD's man are noticably better than Linux. If you want to learn it all, that's the place to start. Of course, if you really mean "all", you'll want to start with FreeBSD. Then install Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, NetBSD, SCO, and whatever others are out there.