From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 16:37:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05940 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:37:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05664 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA13632; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 16:35:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Joe Brouillette cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: should I or shouldn't I? In-Reply-To: <003101bd72c7$9ac98b80$169d08d0@ARA> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Joe Brouillette wrote: > I was interested in getting FreeBSD for one of my machines at home > (nothing spectacular), but after looking through the FreeBSD handbook > I'm thinking that it's above and beyond my capabilities. I'm DOS > literate, but I have no "language skills." Does FreeBSD assume a > certain level of programming expertise? Absolutely not. If you can use DOS then you can pick up UNIX in a jiffy. Just create some aliases for copy, move, etc. and you'll be off and running. Grab a good UNIX book too :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message