Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 18:37:59 -0500 From: "leegold" <no_spam@worldpost.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: arrgh squared Message-ID: <000501c1b28b$fb806ae0$50cd7ad1@ljgms2k>
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I find FreeBsd too complicated. I've bought all the books been at it for two years, and I still don't feel I have a grasp on simple things, like installing new programs, and ungrading. I'm constantly amazed at the knowlegde people have in the mail groups. I have this broken X from trying to upgrade - and all I can do is blindly follow the instructions given to me. When I first started w/FreeBsd my initial reaction was: were is the documentation? I found/find myself using Linux books to get a grasp. I bought Unleashed but try to understand what make world does, try to understand cvs - what the heck's going on there? I've reread the chap. three times. A distribution tree? what? Imo, there's a kind of abstraction in the gui, the docs, the way things are explained - that is good, that helps - I just do not personally experience this when using and trying to learn FreeBsd. The question is: am I learning Unix? Is this hack, and typing in cmds told to me, and the book buying, ...am I learning Unix? Do I have to take a year of C, then a course on Unix system internals, do I have to do this to understand how to fix my X? What's a wrapper? what does it do? oh thanks for telling me. Would I be better off w/Debian? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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