Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 16:01:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Good <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> To: leegold <goldtech@worldpost.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, MrK1nt@aol.com Subject: Re: Users in NYC? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000520155316.7202A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org> In-Reply-To: <000801bfc264$b4d7c160$94e47ad1@leegold1>
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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
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