Newbie Question - about newbie user support

[christopher]

Well, from the mass of replies you've gotten, I would
say I may be a little late here, but I just wanted to
offer a little bit.

I like FreeBSD it's great, and I too, like someone
else on this list went straight from Windows to]
FreeBSD. It was a steep learning curve, but well
worth it, more so even than my work with Linux.

My main suggestion about learning would be to
subscribe to user group mailing lists. They tend
not to be as high volume as freebsd-questions, and
I've really had a lot of luck with my main list, a
Tucson, AZ, USA, unix group. They have people of
all flavors on there, and it gives me access to
non-freebsd specific resources as well. I solve
a lot of FreeBSD issues by searching linux archives.

I also subscribe to specific lists as well, one
for gimp, fvwm, mplayer, and a hand full of others.
Maybe there are some for firewalling, who knows. At
first those tend to be awfully technical, but as
time has passed, more of the stuff makes sense to
me and it keeps in touch with issues that I may
not have now, but will eventually. Good luck.



On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:15:30 -0700 (PDT)
Passive PROFITS <passiveprofits at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> First post to any FreeBSD list; be gentle! ;)
> 
> 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'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
> 
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christopher <skeptikos at gmail.com>