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From: joeg@wwa.com (joe grosch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why *BSD's have smaller user base ? [WAS: Can we quit with "Linux Sucks" ?]
Date: 16 Nov 1994 23:56:34 GMT
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Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote:
: In article <BENJY.94Nov15074901@blackjack.ai.mit.edu>,
: Benjamin B. Thomas <benjy@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
: [...]

: >4) Get some spiffy postscript documentation.

: 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 agree. A common effort would speed things up and would draw on a wide
range of experence and knowledge. Since I assume that most of the readers
to this group are running some version of [Free|Net|386]BSD then each has,
at least, knowledge of _ONE_ specific area. If each of us were to write 
a section describing how to performing a task such as "Installing a new 
user" or "How to set the time". Then we would have a book in very short
order. Any comments?

Josef

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