From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 10 11:18:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46B937B403 for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 11:18:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a051.otenet.gr [212.205.215.51]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5AII0f21885; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 21:18:01 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5AG5is05135; Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:05:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:05:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: TimurLenk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new beginner Message-ID: <20010610190543.A5054@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from timur@euronet.nl on Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:39:50AM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:39:50AM +0200, TimurLenk wrote: > Hi, > > Since 2 months I am working with Linux Suse 7.1 and hade some basic training > on Unix. I really want to learn more about FreeBSD. Maybe one of you guys > know where people who are just learning Unix Freebsd can go to a newsgroup > or to some sites for beginners. PEOPLE LIKE ME WHERE THEY CAN ASK OR FIND > FOR INFORMATIONS WHEN THEY HAVE PROBLEMS. > I AM FROM HOLLAND AND IF YOU KNOW PEOPLE IN HOLLAND THE KNOW VERY VERY VERY > WELL WITH FREEBSD, PLEASE GIVE ME THE EMAIL OR THE SITE OF THAT > ORGANIZATION. On the www.freebsd.org site you will find links to the FreeBSD user groups around the globe. At least one of them is bound to be near you. See if they have a web page up. If they organize meetings, or something. Get in contact with some of the local group members. Now, for the not-so-social part of it. Get yourself a copy of FreeBSD. More often than not, if you find people from a local FreeBSD user group they will be more than willing to provide you with instructions on getting a copy for yourself, or even give you one for free. Try reading the handbook at . Try installing FreeBSD. Keep notes of what you find difficult, or somewhat hard to understand. You can always come back to this list for questions. Be careful enough to note though that asking vague questions such as "I can't install FreeBSD. What's wrong?" might get you nowhere. You have to be a bit more specific on what you tried, what you wanted to do, and what went wrong. Welcome to FreeBSD :) -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message