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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 5 Jun 1995 03:14:33 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside) writes:

>  The FreeBSD has never been particularly difficult. You had to read the 
>documentation though. I guess if you're not willing to do that it 
>probably does seem difficult.

(1) I didn't say FreeBSD was difficult.
YOU claimed Unix was inherently difficult,
and not intended for the "ordinary user".
I believe the opposite -- that Unix is perfectly simple,
when properly explained.
I have no reason to suppose BSD is any more complicated
than any other version of Unix.

I said that FreeBSD is badly documented,
which is a different thing altogether.

(2) Obviously I must be missing something.
Where exactly (preferably at ftp.freebsd.org) _is_ this documentation 
which you recommend me to read ?

>  I don't think reading the file named README before I run the install 
>makes me particularly clever.

You told me the document was called INSTALL.README .
One would have to be quite clever to work out
that when you speak of one document you mean another.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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