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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!OzEmail!news.mel.aone.net.au!labtam!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!news.u.washington.edu!spleen.apl.washington.edu!user From: kargl@apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Documentation project (was Re: Slight flame from Linux user) Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 14:03:18 -0700 Organization: Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington Lines: 27 Message-ID: <kargl-0606951403180001@spleen.apl.washington.edu> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qvtjg$p3h@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3r01r6$o8p@park.uvsc.edu> <3r06il$7ln@canyon.sr.hp.com> <3r1qum$1l7@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3r20g7$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> <3r29g0$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nntp3.u.washington.edu In article <3r29g0$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com>, darrylo@sr.hp.com wrote: > I (Darryl Okahata (darrylo@sr.hp.com)) wrote: > > > There is, however, a need for high-quality, PRINTED documentation -- > > something that doesn't require power, hardware, or a LAN/WWW connection > > to use. Yes, I know that I can print out the HTML docs, but I want > > something of higher-quality -- something without the hyperlinks, but > > with a decent table of contents, index, etc.. > > To emphasize this, I'd like to point out that there are a number of > books on Linux out there, and very few (none?) on FreeBSD. I live > somewhat in the boonies (~60 mi. N. of San Francisco), and a (big) > bookstore here has at least a half-dozen books on Linux. I couldn't > find a single one on FreeBSD. > Probably 95% (or more) of what you might need can be found in the 4.4BSD books by O'reilly & Associates. ISBN: 1-56592-078-[1,2,3,4,5] The other 5% (or so) is currently being worked on. Try http://www.freebsd.org -- Steven G. Kargl Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington Seattle, WA 98105