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From: pmh@pilhuhn.de (Patrick M.Hausen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD documentation (was: Re: Is FreeBSD really free?)
Date: 22 Jun 1995 10:12:12 +0200
Organization: The Home Of The Pilhuhn
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jkh@whisker.internet-eireann.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
> It is ture that the binary and source code of FreeBSD is free from the
> Internet, but what about documentation? There is no complete manual,
> tutorial, etc. that can be found in the Net, and the developer of FreeBSD
> recommends a book that is sold commercially.
>We're working on such documentation, believe me. It's just not easy
>to make progress in this area quite so fast as Linux has, given that
>we've haven't got a user base anywhere near as large.
One of the reasons there is so much documentation for Linux and so
little for BSD is, that most Unix books fit BSD almost perfectly, so
there really is no reason to write something new just to put the
word "BSD" on the cover instead of "Unix". Linux on the other hand
differs from generic ATT or BSD in a lot of ways when it comes to
system administration.
For example: the "Unix System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth et. al.
makes a perfect system administrator's guide. It's published by Prentice
Hall, if you're interested.
My $0.02
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