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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail 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. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3qtpa9$p95@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <D9K4Iz.BJM@midway.uchicago.edu> <3qo2af$nqo@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qq5i8$2jj@anshar.shadow.net> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <3qtgfi$7od@anshar.shadow.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie 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 tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland