On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, christopher wrote:
Where would be the right place to go looking to subscribe to a newbie level user-support list? Perhaps rephrased 'complete newbie user support list' ... LOL
I just felt like chiming in. It has seemed to me that freebsd-hacker is a nice intermediate list. Less volume, and wtf does 'hacker' mean? in other words, it seems open to wide variety of questionings. I have been running freeBSD for only a few years myself, and I still need to muster up more courage for kernel builds and cvsup, but I am feeling that I am making progress. To tell the truth, I wouldn't mind someone else chiming in on their understanding about what "freebsd-hacker" is for.
I'm only like 9+ months into Linux [Ubuntu desktop/server installs v.6.06.1 LTS], though with 12+ years on Windows before that {cough}. Only just finding my way around with CLI, etc, etc. Nevertheless, I wish to try to install and configure FreeBSD as a firewall and I am currently based in the South of England, should that be relevant to any response. Any/all pointers much appreciated!! The only 'official' list seems to be this: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions But it starts off with the rather intimidating phrase "You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical." Obviously all my questions are going to be pretty stupid, 'How-To' type questions, try though I might to get up to speed, I fear it's going to be some time indeed before I will graduate out of the stupid newbie type questions! Is there anything out there in the FreeBSD world that might be of help to me, or is it RTFM all the way?! {not as bad as it sounded initially, as I hear BSD is well documented?!}... Anyway - any pointers to something more at my level appreciated, if there is anything in existence. I do appreciate I'm most likely asking my first stupid question to any FreeBSD list. Doesn't seem like an OS people arrive at without first being a bit of an expert, which I am patently, not! TIA for any (polite) response at all! PP ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"-- christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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