Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 09:23:52 -0700 (MST) From: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Tutorials--Linux versus FreeBSD for Newbies? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.950319085709.18546B-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
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I'm not a computer newbie, but I am *very* much a UN*X newbie. I've
installed FreeBSD 2.0 from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM and have been trying to
teach myself about it. I'm finding it very slow going (still don't have X
running yet or any ordinary users defined...). I bought "UNIX Unleased"
which seems a very good tutorial, but it's for another flavour of UNIX and
the differences with FreeBSD (especially in admin.) are enough to retard
my progress. The FreeBSD man pages are some help, but they are very dense
for a newbie.
What I really need is a tutorial treatment of FreeBSD, but it seems this
doesn't exist. At least that's my distinct impression of the responses I
received on this list a month or two ago.
Recently I was in our biggest local computer book store and they have
several very fat books on Linux; these books appear to be tutorials, at
least to a degree.
I am lead to wonder if a newbie such as me wouldn't do better with Linux
than with FreeBSD, just because of the availability of these tutorial
books. I wonder if I shouldn't give up on FreeBSD and go with Linux
instead. What are your thoughts on this?
Why are there tutorial books for Linux and apparently none for FreeBSD?
Many thanks! <<Bill>>
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Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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