Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:38:41 -0800 From: Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Byung-Jae Kwak <bjkwak@nist.gov> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: arrgh squared [long] Message-ID: <20020212184214.5CCEF37B419@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3C695050.EB436295@nist.gov> References: <000501c1b28b$fb806ae0$50cd7ad1@ljgms2k> <20020211211418.D5B6737B405@hub.freebsd.org> <3C695050.EB436295@nist.gov>
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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:26 am, Byung-Jae Kwak wrote: > You said there are extensive FreeBSD documentations. > I have FreeBSD Handbook, and it will keep me busy for > a while. But other than that, I didn't find much useful > documentation on FreeBSD. Did you mean the "man page"s > for Unix commands? Will Linux How-to documentation be > helpful to learn FreeBSD? It will be appreciated if you. > could give me some direction where I can go from here. > Thank you very much! The FreeBSD Handbook is your starting point. There's a lot of good stuff in it. Then examine your /usr/share/doc directory. You'll find a FreeBSD FAQ, which has a lot of good information, and some other more specialized articles. One of note is "new-users", which in my English installation is installed under /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users. Then I would suggest "FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for Your PC" by Annelise Anderson. The "Complete FreeBSD" is very good, but much more advanced. Online I would check out <http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/>; and<http://www.freebsddiary.org/>; both which contain many FreeBSD related articles. Do not ignore the man pages. Although they are not written in a tutorial style, they are very useful to teach you detailed information for a command. There are also some "general purpose" man pages that go into some topics in great detail. Examples of these are "hier", "security", "firewall" and "ports". FreeBSD has a much better collection of man pages than Linux. Finally, there is a package/port called "Howto" that contains a few of the Linux HOWTOs modified for FreeBSD. The other Linux HOWTOs (at www.linuxdoc.org) are still useful. The exact details they present may not be appropriate for FreeBSD, but their general overall knowledge is good. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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