From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 5 08:20:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA25488 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 08:20:18 -0800 Received: from freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (freenet.edmonton.ab.ca [198.161.206.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA25480 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 08:20:09 -0800 Received: by freenet.edmonton.ab.ca (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/FEAC1.002) id AA37867; Sun, 5 Feb 1995 09:08:34 -0700 Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 09:08:33 -0700 (MST) From: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca To: Roger L Soles Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Books, Etc., on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <9502041957.AA10625@SIRIUS.COM> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Roger, thanks for your feedback! You provide a new perspective on the O'Reilly books that no one else mentioned. There are people at my work who have significant UNIX experience, though I don't know if they'd call themselves gurus yet. (UNIX is fairly new to our installation.) However, I'm sure they'll be able to answer my UNIX newbie questions; with their help, the O'Reilly books, perhaps a tutorial-type book, and my 25 years of experience on IBM mainframes (and more recently, OS/2), I should be fine. Thanks again. ------------------------------------------------- Bill Lee E-mail: billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada On Sat, 4 Feb 1995, Roger L Soles wrote: > I bought the O'Reilly books when I first got started on the BSD > Band wagon. From my perspective they were the only thing you really > could get to give you a clue... but I was not a Unix hack, and the > O'Reilly books really are written for people with a Unix background. > > They are good -- but if you don't have a Unix background, you will > not be able to get by with them alone (fortunately I had a number of > Unix 'gurus' at work to help me over the obscure points). The > newsgroups will help, but they don't give very good interactive > Q&A... > > Good Luck... > > - Roger