From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat May 20 12:58:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A9C37B6A1 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 12:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E726A155F6; Sat, 20 May 2000 15:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA07222; Sat, 20 May 2000 16:01:33 -0400 Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:01:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good To: leegold Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, MrK1nt@aol.com Subject: Re: Users in NYC? In-Reply-To: <000801bfc264$b4d7c160$94e47ad1@leegold1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 20 May 2000, leegold wrote: > yes i'm in the nyc area, i'm as they say a "newbie". i'm "reading-up" before > i install FreeBSD for the 1st time. > > that eskimo.com link i cited- i went to one of their meetings last nite. > even though most of the people there are linux users, there were some > FreeBSD users too. AS a matter of fact some of the professional sysadmin > type dudes in the group are hooked on FreeBSD and good sources of info > 'cause they've been hacking unix for years I am in Staten Island and use Linux (Slackware for production, RedHat for Workstations), UnixWare (legacy apps) and FBSD (my laptop and a fledgling mail server, still doing conf stuff). FBSD has a vastly superior filesystem but lacks good docs. No offense to Greg Lehey but one book does not compare to the O'Reilly armada that focuses on Linux. I have a few older books on 4.4BSD but we could really use some new efforts... 'FBSD in a Nutshell', 'Teach Yourself FBSD in 20 Minutes', etc... I'd like to see a book that starts with 'Remove the shrinkwrap, grab a pint and a pizza...' Jordan Hubbard is pretty good at explaining things...wish he'd take a sabbatical and draft a tome. I'd even agree to proofread (actually serious here). Anyway, I'm also a postgres and perl fanatic. So, if the other New Yorkers wanted to form a newbie usr group to discuss running FBSD (maybe an RDBMS as well ;-), I'm in! Cheers, Tom ------- North Richmond Community Mental Health Center ------- Thomas Good MIS Coordinator Vital Signs: tomg@ { admin | q8 } .nrnet.org Phone: 718-354-5528 Fax: 718-354-5056 /* Member: Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message