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<a href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">ppp page</a>
for links to the other valuable information and the latest updates.</p></li>
<li><p><a name="cfbsd" href="http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/">The
Complete &os;</a> by Greg Lehey, published by O'Reilly.
This book assumes minimal UNIX experience and takes the
beginner step by step through each stage from installation to
everything you need to know to set up and run a &os; system. You
also get to understand what you are doing and why.</p></li>
<li><p>The <a href="&url.books;/handbook/index.html">&os; Handbook</a> and <a
href="&url.books;/faq/index.html">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)</a> are the
main documents for &os;. Essential reading, they contain a lot of
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answers via the <a href="&base;/search/search.html#mailinglists">search</a>
page.</p></li>
<li><p>The main newsgroup for &os; is <a
href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a>.
You might want to keep an eye on <a
href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a>
as well.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="&cgibase;/man.cgi">Manual pages</a> are good
for reference but not always
the best introduction for a novice. The more you work with man pages
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Pretty soon you will want to move on to a book that gives more
coverage.</p></li>
<li><p>One book mentioned frequently by newbies is <a name="ufti"><em>UNIX for
the Impatient</em></a> by Paul W. Abrahams and Bruce R. Larson, published
by Addison-Wesley. It is intended both as a book for learning UNIX
and a reference, and includes an introduction to UNIX concepts and
handy chapter on using the X Window System.</p></li>
<li><p>Another popular book is <em>UNIX Power Tools</em> by Jerry Peek,
Tim O'Reilly and Mike Loukides, published by O'Reilly and
Associates. It is organized as a series of short articles each of
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HTML at a mirror site near you, or can be installed on your own
system.</p></li>
<li><p>UNIX questions are dealt with in the newsgroup <a
href="news:comp.unix.questions">comp.unix.questions</a> and the
associated
<a href="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/faq/">FAQ</a>
from the RMIT FTP site. Newbies are likely to be most interested in
sections 1 and 2 initially.</p></li>
<li><p>Another interesting newsgroup is <a
href="news:comp.unix.user-friendly">comp.unix.user-friendly</a>.
Although this newsgroup is for discussing user-friendliness, it can
contain some good information for newbies. The <a
href="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/user-friendly">FAQ</a>
is also available by FTP.</p></li>
<li><p>Many other web sites hold lists of UNIX tutorials and reference
material. One of the best places to start looking is the UNIX page
at <a
href="http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/">Yahoo!</a>.</p></li>
material. One of the best places to start looking is the
little known search engine <a
href="https://google.com">Google</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="xwin">Learning about the X Window System</a></h2>
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more likely to be difficult for newcomers to digest.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>For basic information about installing, configuring and using the
X Window System, three of the books mentioned above have sections
dealing with X at beginner level:
<a href="&url.books;/handbook/x11.html">The X Window System</a> chapter
of the &os; Handbook, <a href="#cfbsd">The Complete &os;</a>,
and <a href="#ufti">UNIX for the Impatient</a>.</p></li>
<li><p>Before you can get X running exactly the way you like, you will need
to choose a window manager.
Visit the <a href="http://xwinman.org/">Window Managers for X</a>