Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:51:58 +1000 From: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: Mike <jdclone@home.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD newbie Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010730074353.0201c010@gargoyle.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <3B637B50.62C51DA4@home.com>
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> A real newbie here. Just touching the newbie base. I have done the >windows 95/98 networking thingy, and have played with linux in the past. >I have no formal computer training, just dealing with windoze crashes. A >plus point is that I haven't tossed a computer out the window yet. A >buddy recommended BSD as opposed to the supplied ZoneAlarm (ack), and >win2000 networking. So I am going to build a computer dedicated to BSD >and have at it. If it comes together the way my buddy says it will (that >Unix is a wee bit easier to understand than Linux), then I will be on my >way to actually feeling like I have accomplished something. Thanks for >everyones effort into BSD, and thanks for the wealth of information on >your web site. I switched from linux to FreeBSD a while back, mainly because of the awful linux documentation but also because of the frequency of power problems in OZ that kept corrupting linux filesystems. Whilst the FreeBSD docs are heaps better than linux equivalents in most cases & are gradually improving over time, the apparently obligatory lack of diagrams / examples is still a problem for people unfamiliar with a particular application. Thankfully there are a growing number of unofficial "user friendly" resource sites such as freebsddiary.org / bsdvault.net / freebsd.lowlife.org / etc that fill in a lot of gaps To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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