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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 1 Jun 1995 20:13:17 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Message-ID: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie
Summary: Documentation seems somewhat deficient
Keywords: Linux FreeBSD
Having had some problems ("fatal signal 11" syndrome)
on my Linux Pentium, I thought I'd try FreeBSD
to see if it behaved better.
I set aside a 300MB partition,
and started to install FreeBSD.
Unfortunately, I wasn't sure exactly what was happening;
and so, not wanting to lose my Linux partitions,
I abandoned the effort.
As far as I could see, the relevant document "README"
was not available from freebsd.org ;
I read all the documents offered by the mail-server at that site,
but none of them seemed very relevant.
From my experience I would have to say
that FreeBSD is not presently in a state
where it could reasonably be recommended to a non-guru --
as Linux can, in my view.
May I suggest that something like the Linux guides (in LaTeX)
and the Linux HOWTO documents
is urgently needed by, and for, FreeBSD ?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland