## Using Available Documentation
## Daniel Jung <mimiandi@freebsdzine.org>

As I mentioned in a previous Newbies Corner article, it is essential
that you read available documentation as it will help you understand
more about what you are doing.  Read them before go asking someone!

I have here a list of sites that might be help to you:

	http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/
	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/index.html
	http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ.html
	http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/
	/
	http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/
  
Above sites contain lots of info and links to useful sites.  Please
visit them and download them if you think it will be useful to you
later (bookmarking works too).

What are benefits of reading documentation?  You will know exactly
what you are doing.  There are lots people out there who pretend to
know something which they don't.  Lots of people spend his or her
times writing up this documentation for people who are new to
FreeBSD, so the least you can do is to READ before you go asking
someone about it.  If you still have questions after you read, then by
all means, ask.

If you have a FreeBSD box, look in /usr/share/doc (assuming that you 
have installed documentation when installing your box).  The Handbook
and such can be found there.

Even for applications, there is usually enough documentation to help
you.  They are usually called README and INSTALL.  Sometimes, there is
a directory called /doc that contains information you should read.

Also, search engines are an excellent source of information.  Go
search for what you are looking to figure out.  I am sure you will be
amazed to find out how much information is available to you.

I also recommend buying books.  It can be quite costly but it's the 
fastest way to learn what you want.

Thanks for reading this, I really appreciate it!

- Daniel
  
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