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From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user
Date: 5 Jun 1995 10:13:53 -0400
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Timothy Murphy (tim@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
a person whose citation was trimmed said:
: >As an object lesson, consider the following message posted
: >recently to this newsgroup:
: > I have the FreeBSD 2.0 working.
: > During the setup I only created "Guest" as
: > a login.
: > 1) How can I create a sysop login?
: > 2) How do I get to my initial setup?
: > I am new in unix and really desperate!
: >I will be interested to hear what Mr. Murphy's suggestions
: >are in improving the documentation for this poor fellow.
: I don't understand your problem.
: This guy seems to have two perfectly sensible questions.
: Why not just answer them ?
: Is your point that someone like this shouldn't be running FreeBSD ?
I think his point was that this person didn't bother got read the few
pages of documentation. Or at least that's my interpretation - these are
questions that are answered in the basic docs, although the documentation
_does_ assume you have some basic knowledge of what unix is, and that you
know that the root account is the system administrator. Should the basic
documentation contain a basic lesson in what Unix _is_? <shrug> I guess
that's a matter of opinion. I would hope the goal of the FreeBSD team is
the create and maintain the most robust OS they can, with a wide variety
of supported devices (and perhaps even platforms), not to write "A
beginners guide to Unix" yet again. However, everyone has a different
goal and a different vision of what XYZ should be, but if you're not the
owner/controller/whatever of XYZ, it's just talk.
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