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From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user (mere mortals shouldn't use FreeBSD?)
Date: 3 Jun 1995 13:31:57 -0400
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Bill Bogstad (bogstad@news.cs.jhu.edu) wrote:
: It sounds like FreeBSD 2.0.5
: will be better. Apparently someone on the FreeBSD development team
: disagrees with your sentiments and is trying to produce a system that mere
: mortals can use. I applaud these efforts even though I'll probably remain a
: happy Linux user.
I still contend that the FreeBSD docs have been more than sufficient since
v1.0. Perhaps my goals differed - I got FreeBSD because I knew squat about
Unix and wanted to learn the ins and outs about how it ticked. While
being able to twiddle unix commands was definately a goal, the process of
getting there was more important. So the 18-odd pieces of paper it took to
print the README and INSTALL.README before I started, and reading each
section before I attempted it, didn't seem unreasonable to me.
The result was that yes, it probably took longer to do than a menu-driven
linux-esque install would have taken, but when I was done I had some idea
what the partitions were, where some of the things were and what a few of
the configuration files were all about.
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