Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 11:13:49 PDT From: "Cosmic 665" <the_hermit665@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: NEWBIE ALERT!!! Message-ID: <19990802181350.58742.qmail@hotmail.com>
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If your a FreeBSD Newbie Looking to get FreeBSD and documentation, Goto: Indelible-blue "http://www.indelible-blue.com/ibapps/products.nsf/unix" look for "the complete set of FreeBSD +4 CD's" when you get FreeBSD from indelible blue, you get a 500 page book + the walnut Creek distribution of FreeBSD... It's way better than buying FreeBSD from walnut Creek with no documentation. good luck -Cosmic-665 >From: Paul Anderson <paul@geeky1.ebtech.net> >To: Peter McGarvey <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> >CC: David Kudrav <dkudrav@eng.ua.edu>, >freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG,kudra001@bama.ua.edu >Subject: RE: basic info on freebsd needed... >Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:20:48 -0400 (EDT) >MIME-Version: 1.0 >From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 02 10:11:16 1999 >Received: from [204.216.27.18] by hotmail.com (2.1) with ESMTP id >MHotMailB96F1C310109D82197C0CCD81B125A3A0; Mon Aug 02 10:11:16 1999 >Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 538)id 2D6CB15182; Mon, >2 Aug 1999 10:11:32 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])by hub.freebsd.org >(Postfix) with SMTPid E756D1CD667; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:11:31 -0700 >(PDT)(envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies) >Received: by hub.freebsd.org (bulk_mailer v1.12); Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:11:31 >-0700 >Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org >Received: from bootes.ebtech.net (bootes.ebtech.net [142.250.0.12])by >hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AACCF14F2Dfor ><freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:11:28 -0700 >(PDT)(envelope-from paul@geeky1.ebtech.net) >Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bootes.ebtech.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with >UUCP id MAA13484; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:38:29 -0400 >Received: from localhost (paul@localhost)by geeky1.ebtech.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) >with SMTP id MAA08183;Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:20:49 -0400 >In-Reply-To: <NDBBJLAJELEHNLGABIJNOENLCBAA.Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> >Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990802121116.369s-100000@geeky1.ebtech.net> >Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Precedence: bulk > >On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Peter McGarvey wrote: > > > IMHO FreeBSD is definately the better OS, and is much easier to > > install. > > >The big problem I had with FreeBSD is that very little documentation comes >with it on the CD. So, as a result I had the exact opposite experience >you did. I found that the system was essentially undocumented(IME, the >FreeBSD Handbook only briefly glazes over each of it's topics and has very >little detailed documentation), and very much different from what I was >used to. It took a remarkable amount of struggle just to get syslogd to >spew log messages to one of the tty's, I still have no idea why the line >wouldn't work at the bottom of syslogd.conf and would work at the top. > >IMHO, FreeBSD could sure use some better documentation. It took me days >just to figure out that the device for the NE2000 ether card is ed0 - not >a whisp of a clue in the docs. TTYL! > > >--- >Paul Anderson - Self-employed Megalomaniac >paul@geeky1.ebtech.net >Member of the Sarnia Linux User's Group >http://www.sar-net.com/slug >http://zephyr.sellad.on.ca/~paul >"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." > -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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