On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Chris Hettrick
<ch...@populatealltheresistors.com> wrote:
> When he was four I gave him an old apple iBook G4 laptop, wiped OSX and put 
> on OpenBSD instead. I showed him how to log in and basic commands such as 
> cal, man, date, cat, ls, cd, etc and I answer every question he has. If I 
> don't know the answer, we will research the answer together and, thanks to 
> OpenBSD's excellent man pages, we can get the answer pretty quick!
> I want to give him a nice A to Z list with the classic UNIX commands for him 
> to learn more. He is now learning some vi and doing pipes and redirection. He 
> doesn't yet know about X, so it is all shell. Small steps, but he already 
> knows more, and can do more, than the average windows user.
> He says "Thanks for my OpenBSD!"
> I am *very* proud.

There's the "learn" - it's a bit out of date, but pretty much walks
you through most everything.  That's how I got started.  You can find
it here:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/bwk/index.html

Turn it into a port if you have time :)


-- 
http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
"This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity."
-- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation.
"Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or
internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks
factory where smoking on the job is permitted."  -- Gene Spafford
learn french:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30v_g83VHK4

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