On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, James S Blankenship wrote:
I'm new to BSD's. I have been using Linux after
several failed attempts to configure FBSD back in
2001. I'm going to work with DesktopBSD for a bit to
familiarize myself with BSD/Unix. I'd like to learn
as much as possible about FBSD and Unix in general,
and I'm not really a techie, so it's kind of difficult
for me. I don't have anyone nearby who can help me
out with BSD issues. I guess you could call me a
frustrated techie :0)
Greetings and welcome. I'm a desktop user, who has tried Linux and found
typical installs too much like Windows or Macintosh with too much going on
under the hood that couldn't be separated out and understood.
FreeBSD is like Zen -- very understandable and rational; once the learning
curve is mounted and a few concepts understood, it's very simple. Also
pretty DIY. (If, like me, you avoid KDE and Gnome, which can add layers of
complications even to *BSD.)
Let me recommend, if you haven't found them, Dru Lavigne's articles on
O'Reilly's BSD DevCenter, entitled FreeBSD Basics.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15
Two of these articles especially might be especially useful to you:
"FreeBSD for Linux Users" at
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html
and "More FreeBSD for Linux Users" at
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html
~Peter Hummers
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