From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 09:03:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F7716A4C3 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319AE43FF3 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HKH003EYR6CO4@smtp03.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:01:26 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Intranet.lan (akruijff@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h7VG2MRO093104;akruijff@Intranet.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Intranet.lan (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h7VG2MJB093103; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:02:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:02:22 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <20030830162626.98556.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> To: Cesar Diaz Message-id: <20030831160222.GE94087@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030830084147.03bf5760@209.112.4.2> <20030830162626.98556.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to go next X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:03:12 -0000 On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 09:26:26AM -0700, Cesar Diaz wrote: > > I'm a Windows system administrator trying to learn FreeBSD. I have installed 5.0 on a few machine in my home lab and have the FreeBSD complete reference. > > My question is, what next? What kind of things, applications etc should I do to get more familiar with the OS? My goal is to use OS for system and security administration. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > First of all: Please a new question by creating a enterly fresh mail (i.e. not replying to another mail). This has te benefid of starting a new tread and thus attract more ppl to you question. There are two basic URL a newbie sould read. - http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ - http://www.lemis.com/questions.html/ Since you have 5.0 I suggest you first task would be upgrade your computer to 5.1. You can read everything you need to now here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/