New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread Robert Warning
Hello all. Staring about 6 months ago I began to leave the Windows world and explore the world of Unix. My first stop was Linux (mainly because it was the only Unix os for ix86 I heard of) and while I indeed enjoyed Linux a great deal I want to explore more and try out the other *nixes out

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread Mike Hogsett
My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? They spend too much time wondering why they were using Linux. - Mike Hogsett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'
- Original Message - From: Robert Warning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:14 PM Subject: New to BSD and have a few questions. Hello all. Staring about 6 months ago I began to leave the Windows world and explore the world of Unix. My first stop

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread Mike Hogsett
My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? Ok, time for the honest answer... Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities (ps, ifconfig, route, etc.) are just a wee pit different, nothing too bad and nothing the man pages won't help

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread MikeM
On 10/17/2002 at 7:14 PM Robert Warning wrote: |Hello all. Staring about 6 months ago I began to leave the Windows world |and explore the world of Unix. My first stop was Linux (mainly because |it was the only Unix os for ix86 I heard of) and while I indeed enjoyed |Linux a great deal I want

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread John Bleichert
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Robert Warning wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:14:50 -0400 From: Robert Warning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New to BSD and have a few questions. Hello all. Staring about 6 months ago I began to leave the Windows world and explore the world of

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Robert Warning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? -- Failure to post questions in traditional e-mail formats. (You jumped that pit quite nicely, thank you.) -- Failure to skim the many resources (other than posting to lists)

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread paul beard
Mike Hogsett wrote: My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? Ok, time for the honest answer... Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities (ps, ifconfig, route, etc.) are just a wee pit different, nothing too bad and nothing the

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:30:37PM -0700, paul beard wrote: Mike Hogsett wrote: My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? Ok, time for the honest answer... Coming from Linux to BSD you'll find that many of the various utilities (ps, ifconfig, route,