Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:23:22 -0700 From: "Tyler Lu" <ty@refute.org> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: RE: Suggestions for Documentation] Message-ID: <200008152123.OAA24990@mail7.bigmailbox.com>
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>From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= <jukka.simila@sveg.se.sykes.com> >To: "'Tyler Lu'" <ty@refute.org>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: Suggestions for Documentation >Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:38:40 +0200 > >(Tyler, could you forward/reply to newbies too, I'm behind a firewall and >can't post to any freebsd lists) > >> Maybe you should try varieties of OS that have a Linux >> kernel, like Mandrake, >> Redhat, Slackware... Then dig into FreeBSD. > >IMHO: First try FreeBSD, then dig into Linux. You know, it is more sensible >to first learn the easier OS and then look at those weird scribble-scrabble >collection mess-ups. >In my experience FreeBSD is easier than Linux, I started with it when I >moved from windows world, and have tried Linux after that. Those linuxes >(RedHat 5 and Mandrake 7) lasted on my HD for less than 2 days and then I >noticed it has nothing that FreeBSD can't offer, and FreeBSD does it in the >way I like it. > >> >> It also wouldn't hurt if you learn about basics theory of >> computers and >> networks, such as memory storage and retrieval, binary number >> system, TCP/IP >> Stack, etc... >> >> - Tyler Lu >> >> >> >From: "Jason La" <jasonla_@hotmail.com> >> >To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >> >Subject: Suggestions for Documentation >> >Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:08:17 PDT >> > >> >To Whom it May Concern, >> > >> >I am a newbie (that's why I'm in this group). I have some >> suggestions to >> >whomever might write FBSD documentation. >> > >> >As a newbie, it took a while for me to understand what a >> "server" was. I >> >started out thinking that it was a physical machine. I >> didn't find any place >> >that explained to me what a software server was.. like the X >> Server... >> >SUGGESTION: Please take the time to explain some basic background or >> >understanding so you doin't loose us. >> > >> >Also, I initially didn't know where to find files that docs >> and books >> >referred to. For example, in Grey Lehay's Complete FreeBSD, >> he refers to >> >xinitrc, but never told me where to find it. Being a newbie, >> it's difficult >> >for me to know where to find stuff and what the hierarchy of >> FreeBSD is. >> > >> >I had more, but can't remember them at the momment. >> > >> >Hoever, keeping things in prosective, you guys are writing >> stuff that I can >> >get for free, and I can't do any better a job, so thanks guy! >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Jason La >> >jasonla_@hotmail.com >> > >> >_____________________________________________________________ >> ___________ >> >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at >http://www.hotmail.com >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > >_______________________________________________________ >Tyler Lu > >Email: ty@refute.org >WWW: http://web.refute.org/ > >"It's different to walk the path than to know the path" >-Morpheus, The Matrix > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _______________________________________________________ Tyler Lu Email: ty@refute.org WWW: http://web.refute.org/ "There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path." -Morpheus, The Matrix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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