On 12/16/2015 10:02 PM, Joseph wrote: > Hi, > > Here - https://www.marc.info/?l=netbsd-users&m=144678820111821 - I was > recommended by Herb to first go through the book, 'Learning the UNIX > Operating System' (O'Reilly). The last, 5th edition (2001) talks about > someone from the organization will set me up with a UNIX environment - I > guess that will be you. > > Flipping through the table of contents, I guess my best bet would be a live > system with X (remember, I was recommended 'Learning the UNIX Operating > System' before myself installing BSD myself). > > Flipping through the mailing list archives, there has been requests for live > systems before, for similar, educational, purposes. I'm not sure what's the > conclusion now, what NetBSD live system can you honestly recommend, if any? > Or, alternatively, what FreeBSD live system? OpenBSD? I guess switching from > the other BSD live system to installing NetBSD core might not overly confuse > me, so I can manage such a transition. > > Alternatively, feel free to recommend perhaps a more up to date book in a > different style, which was presumably not written in a language to folks who > 'have to' deal with UNIX, 'in the organization.' (Browsing Amazon introduced > me to 'The UNIX Hater's Handbook' as well; at least I understand this might > have been a thing in 1994) I really like No Starch Press for geek > entertainment, but presumably they don't see a business in a general UNIX > book. Their similar title, 'How Linux works' (2nd edition, 2014), might not > be 'UNIX-like' enough for my purposes. > > Thanks for your help! >
I would very much suggest jumping in with both feet. If you don't have a system to install a bsd system on - install virtualbox, parallels or qemu and start experimenting. I personally have many different systems ranging from TOPS-20 to Plan 9 including some linux, OpenBSD and NETBSD systems this way. I use Qemu. --- Marina Brown
