Learning bsd? reddit / freebsd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L-ui · 2020-09-21 00:35 Im newbie in all bsd things ive interest a lot on freebsd and netbsd, but i dont understand the documentation of freebsd and the manual is too much for me, i'd like to know if there some material more easy to understand because english its not my main lenguage and tutorials and info in spanish its almost inexistent ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-09-21 00:48 I get what you mean, but sadly in the IT industry almost all of the resources are in English, and it sucks, I'm a native spanish speaker, you will have to get better at English, but a beginners resource could be the Absolute FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tofazzz · 2020-09-21 01:10 \+1 for that book, it helped me a lot! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lammy · 2020-09-21 01:26 Try it in a virtual machine first before installing it on bare hardware. Being able to save and restore snapshots of the VM gives you an unlimited number of chances to break your FreeBSD installation and easily undo a mistake. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- desnudopenguino · 2020-09-21 02:28 Anything by lucas is gold ---------------------------------------------------------------------- desnudopenguino · 2020-09-21 02:35 [https://www.freebsd.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859- 1/books/handbook/](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/es_ES.ISO8859- 1/books/handbook/) I'm not sure how complete it is, but this should help. Also if you like freebsd, your help translating could be appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vermaden · 2020-09-21 06:42 Its part of the game (TM). You either learn English or you will not be able to learn UNIX. Its not only documentation, its man pages, its scripts (or programs) its syntax and options for commands ... its all English. When I started with FreeBSD my English was not great or 'so so' but writing new posts and replying, reading and doing everything in English its the best way to learn it. For start use [https://translate.google.com/](https://translate.google.com/) for all online pages. For example link to the 'translated' FreeBSD Handbook: [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=es&u=**https://free bsd.org/handbook**](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl= es&u=https://freebsd.org/handbook) Here are documentation resources in Spanish from FreeBSD: * [http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/articles/](http://ftp.fre ebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/articles/) * [http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/books/](http://ftp.freebs d.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/books/) And here are FreeBSD Handbook and FAQ in Spanish in various formats: * [http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/books/handbook/](http://f tp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/books/handbook/) * [http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/books/faq/](http://ftp.fr eebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/es/books/faq/) Hope that helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tehtrb · 2020-09-21 08:00 yup. no english, no IT. sad but true ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wesssantik · 2020-09-21 08:07 I don't think so... If you have a second device (like notebook) it is much more better try install something to real device. Cause you may have problems with drivers or something else. I'm understand it after Gentoo installation. On wm I have no problems but in real world it is much pretty and good in educational purposes:-) Let's try to install on real hardware!:D ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dadbot_2 · 2020-09-21 08:07 Hi understand it after Gentoo installation, I'm Dad👨 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RealisticPiece5981 · 2020-09-21 09:01 If youve been using linux for a while you won't have much trouble. Especially if you used it a lot in say, 2004-2008~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- martintoy · 2020-09-21 10:43 Same here for spanish but most of the IT words are the same in all language. I work with freebesd almost every day. It's a great OS you will find new features and new people. Que te diviertas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kraileth · 2020-09-21 12:48 There definitely is quite a bit of material out there in languages other than English - but it is true that in comparison it's still not much. Also it's far more likely outdated material since usually the English documents are the source of truth and everything else is, well, just a translation. For learning FreeBSD systematically you'll have to do a lot by yourself. However there are options where you can get help in other languages. Unfortunately I don't know about Spanish specifically. I've come across a full FreeBSD course (udemy or something?) a while ago, but I think that was in Portuguese (which would probably at least be a lot closer to you than English). There's probably a Spanish FreeBSD community where you could ask - BSD people are usually pretty welcoming. I've been considering to learn Interlingua; it's an artificial language like e.g. Esperanto - but in contrast to the latter it is based on the common European vocabulary combined with a very simple grammar. The idea here is that any native speaker of a Romance language (like e.g. Spanish) will immediately be able to understand the meaning of a text without having to actually learn Interlingua (and speakers of other European languages with a higher education to understand > 50% due to familiarity with common loan words). I wonder if "pooling" some FreeBSD-related information that way would make sense. At least the Portuguese, the Spanish, the French, the Italians and the Romanians in Europe as well as many more people from other countries in Latin America, French-speaking Africa, etc. or people who learned one of those languages could profit from it. Does anybody else think that it could be a good thing? At the very least giving it a try might be a great excuse to finally push myself and start learning. Though It would be great to know at least one native speaker of a Romance language who's interested in FreeBSD. Otherwise I can see such an effort die pretty quickly if there's never any feedback... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aGIFTedTroll · 2020-09-22 04:07 As someone that speaks English, I found it useful to look up words in other languages in a dictionary rather than only using a translator. Wiktionary (part of the group that runs Wikipedia) is really useful for this. https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikcionario:Portada Example: https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/hello You probably already found this, but just in case you haven't, FreeBSD's site and some of the documentation is available in Spanish too. https://www.freebsd.org/es/ For tutorials, searching "freebsd espanol" seems to have a lot of results, for example I found this on YouTube by searching that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E74lb4c_cMg Good luck amigo/amiga! Learning technical things is frustrating, but don't give up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bwel99 · 2020-09-26 01:41 Agree, his books are very helpful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- freepackets · 2020-09-28 02:42 I am following [this course](https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/) recently. The platform is a NetBSD VM and the speaker’s mother tongue is German. It is a C programming course. But you could learn a lot Unix system concepts though.