On Tuesday 11 March 2008 06:55:16 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2008-03-10 08:33, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still have the FreeBSD 2.1.5 set from Walnut Creek that a friend had > > shipped to me after I expressed an interest to "learn unix" > > > > I sometimes wonder how different things would be if he'd been a linux > > fan and shipped me some slackware cds or something. > > "There's no escape from Fate", at least not for some of us. My own UNIX > road starts as a user of SunOS 4.X but the first UNIX-like system I > installed on my own computer was Linux. > > A friend let me install Linux from his red InfoMagic CD-ROM set, and I > still have my own blue Infomagic CD-ROM set, with Slackware 3.1 and the > Redhat Linux "Picasso" release (with Linux kernel 1.2.13). > > After a few years of Linux fun, I borrowed an OpenBSD CD-ROM, managed to > trash my partition table (because I didn't know enough about disklabels) > and eventually hit upon the FreeBSD Handbook. The Handbook seemed very > detailed, easy to read, and I realized I was actually _learning_ stuff > by just reading it -- without having even installed FreeBSD yet. > > That was it, for me :) >
I was so green with unix when I started that the friend who shipped me the cds suggested I type in man man after I got the system installed. I was amazed by the documentation shipped with the system, and it was painfully inadequet compared to today....I literally did a cd /bin ; ls ; and started reading the man pages for stuff one at a time. I also read the FreeBSD handbook through, which in 1996 was a couple hours work...it's up to 900+ pages now. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB
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