Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:24:01 -0600 From: Jorge Biquez <jbiquez@icsmx.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Learning and learning.... Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20001220230749.01caa5b0@intranet.com.mx>
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Hello all. I'm sorry if this sound so stupid. As I have mentioned in other email I'm "new" to FreeBSD and Unix. I'm styding the book "The Complete FreeBSD" for version 3.2 but I definitely feel very slow and stupid since I don't understand some very very basic things on what's going on , what do you affect, what are the tools to use(maybe the problem when you come from other OS like Wxx). An example of this (don't laugh too loud please) I'm using a PII 350Mhz, 128RAM,1 Hd 8GB for studying and learning. I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of sendmail, so I entered to the FreeBSD.ORG site, looked for the port and that pointed me to the site of SENDMAIL.ORG. I downloaded the archive of the latest version to my machine but then I felt very stupid since I didn't know what else to do, I mean, I know I had to compile and install the program but I didn't knew what to do (I have to confese that I just wanted to use the command pkg_add to install it).... Just to be short after 5 minutes of that my machine wasn't able to run sendmail anymore since I did something when I tried to installed that cause that the sendmail daemon coul not start. Just after reading a lot in the book and the sendmail site my sendmail is running but still I'm not sure if it is working that new version .... I learned a very hard lesson... I need to know some more basic things on how things really work there (FreeBSD). I know that maybe could take me years but I want to become profficient with this great Operating System and I commited to learn and study all the material I could. My question is: For stupid and slow people like me , What would be your suggestions on the steps to follow to learn the basics ? Any Internet resources for very slow begginers? Any other books?. Thanks in advance for your advice and patient and I'm sorry for the english. JB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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