From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Aug 20 09:56:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11413 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:56:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11399 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 09:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (aeiusrI-09.aei.ca [206.186.205.159]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA20677 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:55:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35DC550F.3E76A4F3@aei.ca> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:55:43 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: URL and Opinions on how to really learn something Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've readed all your post about learning FreeBSD, C and other thing like that. I've learned than I cannot learn with a teacher. I need some characters on a screen or on paper. But before that, I was lazy and I was crying around for some easy way to learn. But sorry, you need to sit down, read, try and crash your system. I also found than Xwindows make me feel lazy and play with netscape and tkirc! So I deleted Xfree. Hey, Unix is Command Line Interface.. Lynx rocks! -Best for beginner http://www.geek-girl.com/Unixhelp/ -the UNIX Reference Desk http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html -Unix Guru Universe---beginners http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=help.beginners&F=1111111111&G=Y Vi: http://www.linuxbox.com/~taylor/4ltrwrd/ C: ftp://scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/cprog/prog.course.wlv./ http://arachnid.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html The main thing I hate with Unix is than there is no standarisation, so you need to read a lot of stuff who do not really matter about such and such situation (exemple: sh vs csh, will I learn both? Do I need to learn both? Also System V vs BSD vs AIX vs HP-UX etc...: they always give a lot of documentation on both way in the same document, this is why my old Oreilly book have 500 pages on Unix, and only ½ of them apply for BSD, if not less) Hope it will help -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message