From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 20 19:26:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902C81065670 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:26:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAD28FC0A for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:26:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so3669245wib.13 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:26:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=GKNcCDki6pGu2W1eBDjokB6TFF9/lCWhgDjL1fdwDpo=; b=YBE9XWJeIbAhjd+otWa/CaX+92hfHfrXLc8VnG4rHapqkCHQaNU/60EdIxVQKazoWa IBb6I+Zdqr5urpOnt3Df5nHVOgw9lNeFTDbPxIyp2ytHd7qPfBbZkEoZi+WtCC045ava s/45xrbjFlxy0JqVafbx1zf8MZ9EesEsjOYJyS6L8E+hcQEGoQSfF9zxznpHt06w2M24 IjP0ZF4rUt36vQfWQXj6SU+vvy8ha57atOsQWCJiJ1LoUwbVA9VHHtHC1Vokav/+a/U6 EFutgsX/KbRjWq0KPjbTBHKN72rnMYCPCGNN55CPP8VpJ07h/xN2SRXig8EO5dbx3X+Q xVjQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.204.88 with SMTP id g66mr13074207weo.79.1340220394025; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.88.155 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:26:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:26:33 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Fred Morcos Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:26:35 -0000 These are good guidelines to follow: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/article.html Try to avoid X Y problems. Initiating it with the root question will give the best results. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Fred Morcos wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to FreeBSD, coming from a GNU/Linux background (most > comfortable with Archlinux). I compiled a series of questions I would > like to ask in different areas and categories. Should I send them all > in a single email message or should I split them by subject/topic into > different emails? > > The advantage of the former is that I will be able to easily show > relations between the different topics and questions (put them into > context) as well as articulate the setup I would like to reach. The > advantage of the latter is that it is cleaner and simpler to answer > one question by one. > > Also, I have done a bit of poking around to answer each of my own > questions, obviously with no luck, so I do not mind RTFM-ing - I would > actually prefer it, please feel free to link me to an article, > tutorial, man page or handbook that already answers one or more > question(s). > > Cheers, > Fred > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Adam Vande More