From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 14 18: 1:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A870C37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:01:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AE742FB0022; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:01:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3B295F8D.B6985432@wiegand.org> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:06:21 -0700 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Tyson Cc: Melody Akins , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Beginner Squeaks Up References: <200106150033.RAA21660@falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 If you can, buy either/both of these books: The Complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey The FreeBSD Corporate Networkers Guide by Ted Mittelstaedt They are great for beginners and intermediate users. Those were how I learned FBSD. And of course there is www.freebsd.org with The FreeBSD Handbook online, lots of tutorials, faq's etc. And the list freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org, as well as this list. I hope you will have as much fun as I have learning a new OS, now I use FBSD exclusively at home for my desktop OS, as well as two other machines running FBSD here at home. -- Chip Don Tyson wrote: > On the freebsd.org site look under "Resources for Newbies" and > find the link(s) to "For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX" by > Anneliese Anderson -- the best short introduction around. I'll > defer to others on how you get from where you are now to running > an intranet, but there's absolutely no reason you can't become > proficient with FreeBSD. > > Don Tyson > > > Hello! > > > > I'm obviously interested in UNIX or I wouldn't have subscribed to this list. > > Having said that, it appears I am in 'over my head!' You folks have > > forgotten more than I will ever know, I think. > > > > Question: Having only a very rudimentary (One unfinished COBOL programming > > class in 1979)knowledge of programming, and only a bit less knowledge of > > operating systems, I'd like to know where to begin. I think starting with > > UNIX might be a mistake...? My sons are both technicians/sysadmins, but > > because I'm 'mom,' they don't think I'm serious about learning. > > > > I'd like to learn UNIX because I want to work on back-end internet /intranet > > support and this knowledge is necessary. Any help will be much appreciated. > > > > Warmly, > > Melody Akins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message