Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 02 May 2011 20:07:54 -0500, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011 18:47:11 -0400, Louis Marrerolouis_marr...@yahoo.com wrote: Being familiar only with general knowledge on the Windows XP that I use daily, I've gone on the web to find out more information on some

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Nikola Pavlović
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote: Here are some questions that can help my understanding: 1. I know that Windows is an OS, and Linux/Unix as well as FreeBSD are other Operating System. My very basic question is this: Is it even possible to install a

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 3, 2011 9:46:04 AM +0200, Polytropon is alleged to have said: I would like to add the excellent manpages of the system. Unlike many Linusi, those manpages are kept current by the FreeBSD operating system developers and their documentation assistants. So whenever you're not fully

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Robert Huff
Daniel Staal writes: I would like to add the excellent manpages of the system. Unlike many Linusi, those manpages are kept current by the FreeBSD operating system developers and their documentation assistants. So whenever you're not fully sure about something, use man something.

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:46:04AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: There also is an additional tool called something like Power shell (not fully sure, I'm not a Windows person) that is more like a UNIX shell than CMD.EXE, which has its origins in the COMMAND.COM of DOS - not the _real_ DOS of

Re: Unix basics (was Re: For My Edification)

2011-05-03 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 2 May 2011 19:37, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Mon, 2 May 2011, Louis Marrero wrote: Being familiar only with general knowledge on the Windows XP that I use daily, I've gone on the web to find out more information on some of the terms used by this programmer, such as BSD,

For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Louis Marrero
Gentlemen, I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to shed some light on. Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to understand a very experienced programmer friend that mixes Linux/Unix terminology in his vocabulary under the

Unix basics (was Re: For My Edification)

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Hill
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Louis Marrero wrote: I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to shed some light on. I shall endeavor to provide dumb answers in return :^) For *good* answers, a great place to start is the Handbook,

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:47:11PM -0400, Louis Marrero wrote: Gentlemen, I have a number of really dumb questions that I hope you might be able to shed some light on. Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to understand a very experienced programmer

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Polytropon
Although others have already given you excellent replies, I would like to add a few comments. On Mon, 2 May 2011 18:47:11 -0400, Louis Marrero louis_marr...@yahoo.com wrote: Although I am familiar with basic computer operation, I've been trying to understand a very experienced programmer

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On 05/02/11 19:44, Polytropon wrote: Although others have already given you excellent replies, I would like to add a few comments. I have a couple of suggestion that I've not yet seen in the thread ... and kudos to you for a] asking, and nicely done, and b] gathering your courage to give

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 08:07:54PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: On 05/02/11 19:44, Polytropon wrote: You can also make use of so-called Live systems, a thing not common to Windows: This is an installed and configured operating system that you boot from a CD, DVD or USB stick. You do NOT have