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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Documentation project (was Re: Slight flame from Linux user)
Date: 7 Jun 1995 22:14:46 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) writes:

>It would be a good thing to get FreeBSD and Linux's documentation to
>the level where someone need not know much more about the system than
>how to install DOS could do it. In the end all this will do is create
>more Unix users from the vast pool of MS-DOS users out there now.

I think this has already been done for Linux,
with "Linux Installation and Getting Started".
This is available in LaTeX as part of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP):

ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/install-guide .

You can also find there a network-guide, a programmers-guide,
a users-guide and a system-admin-guide.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland