Unix Newbie Help

[jimbo_mac]

A pentium III computer was donated to me the other day.
I decided to install freeBSD, the installation was a breeze.

I am now staring at a console prompt :-)
Being a macperson, I don't know CRON from squid, so where do I start?

Any books, threads, newbie commands appreciated.

TIA
Jim

[bcolflesh]

From the FreeBSD site:

andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html

[MonkeeSage]

AFAIK, the BSDs come packaged with most or all of the tools mentioned in this thread so all of the same commands could be used on FreeBSD...
[webmasterworld.com...]

Jordan

[dingman]

Install the FreeBSD Ports hierarchy [freebsd.org] so you can easily install any apps you want. The hierarchy itself is ~20mb of mostly makefiles, not all the programs, but it does let you install whatever you want quite easily. Highly reccomended for anyone using any of the *BSDs.

[jimbo_mac]

thanks everyone, bookmarked and gradually going through them.

[bakedjake]

Google for "FreeBSD Handbook". Read the whole thing. You'll be set for the most part after that. :)

And if you're not, you'll at least have a better idea of what's going on.

Welcome!

[timster]

Since you are a Mac user, you may be interested that O'Reilly Press has books/Web pages that assume a new Unix user coming from a Mac background (see mac.oreilly.com).

Learning Unix for MacOS X gives a solid introduction to the basics (it's $20).

(For anyone who might not know, "MacOS X Unix" is a FreeBSD Unix.)