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Update some links to resources for newbies:

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1. Remove the "Download instructions"
- The mentioned site is not updated any longer so it's just
  confusing for newbies.
- Most newbies don't download via FTP.  Even if they
  do, they will normally download the ISO-images, not the
  different distributions.
- www/en/where.sgml already describes how to get FreeBSD
  and is up-to-date.

2. "The Complete FreeBSD"
- This book can be downloaded free of charge since 2006 from
  http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/.  So link to
  this site.

3. article "new-users".
- It has been in the doc-tree for a long time now.  So link
  to it.
- The docs at the also mentioned FTP-site are outdated.
  Recent versions are available from the FreeBSD.org servers
  (just like the article itself).

Discussed with/approved by:     remko@ (mentor)
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/newbies.sgml,v 1.52 2006/08/19 21:20:42 hrs Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY title 'Resources for Newbies'>
<!ENTITY % navinclude.docs "INCLUDE">
<!ENTITY url.articles "&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles">
@ -62,19 +62,12 @@
<a href="&base;/releases/index.html">errata file</a>
from the web site, in case it has been updated.</p>
<p>If you decide to download FreeBSD, check whether these illustrated and
expanded <a href="http://www.lemis.com/what-to-download.html">download
instructions</a> for a previous version are still available before
you begin. That should make the whole process a lot clearer.</p></li>
<li><p>A number of <a href="&base;/docs/books.html#ARTICLES">short
articles and tutorials</a> are available. The short tutorial,
<a href="http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/">For
<a href="&url.articles;/new-users/index.html">For
People New to Both FreeBSD and Unix</a>, is popular with absolute
beginners. You do not have to know much about anything to enjoy
this one. It can also be downloaded in <a
href="ftp://andrsn.stanford.edu/pub/">postscript or RTF format</a>
for printing.</p></li>
this one.</p></li>
<li><p>The first thing many people need to set up is ppp, and there is
a lot of documentation to help. You might start with at least those
@ -84,7 +77,7 @@
<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.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdcomp4">The
<li><p><a name="cfbsd" href="http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/">The
Complete FreeBSD</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