Newbie Question - about newbie user support

[KAYVEN RIESE]

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
>>
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