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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?]
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 16:49:50 GMT
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In article <BENJY.94Nov15074901@blackjack.ai.mit.edu>,
Benjamin B. Thomas <benjy@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
> [...]
> My suggestions for improving BSD's user base:
> 4) Get some spiffy postscript documentation.

Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote:
: There are already very good books about *BSD (4.4BSD documentation
: by O'Reilly and 4.3BSD UNIX OS by Leffler e.a.).
: 
: One [Free|Net|386]BSD specific book would be a nice thing...
: Could we do this as a common effort?

I'll typeset the monster into postscript if anyone is interested.  I
love good books, and have always wanted to design a book.  I even re-
typeset the monthly FAQ before hadning it out to newbies interested in
FreeBSD!  Weird, huh?  ;^)


	Wes Peters