From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 12 13:27:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03254 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:27:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03249 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id NAA15780 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:27:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:27:05 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810122027.NAA15780@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: XFree86 & things Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19981011080657.49962@welearn.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:06:57 +1000 >From: Sue Blake >> Maybe it is because I have no Unix background that I am finding it >> hard going. >Yep, that's a problem for all of us. We're trying to learn about a >particular unix operating system without knowing unix first. Ahem.... Please note that I'm *only* speaking (writing) for myself.... But there are some of us who are not at all "new" to UNIX (even UNIX of the BSD persuasion), but who are new to FreeBSD. In my case, for example, the primary challenge is figuring out how to deal with hardware that is either PC-specific (IDE drives, anyone?) or significantly more common on PC-type machines than (say) SPARCstations or UltraSPARCs. Dealing with the ways in which FreeBSD is idiosyncratic with respect to other UNIX variants (even BSD-ish ones) is comparatively minor. And for me, "explaining" a UNIX concept by referring to a Microsoft one is quite the wrong way 'round. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message