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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!vanbc.wimsey.com!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!okjunc.junction.net!michael From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD Date: 1 Sep 1995 01:03:52 GMT Organization: Okanagan Internet Junction, Vernon B.C., Canada Lines: 48 Message-ID: <425m5o$8tl@felix.junction.net> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <41u464$nbs@park.uvsc.edu> <41vjp1$bin@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <1995Aug30.021659.23498@vindaloo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: okjunc.junction.net In article <1995Aug30.021659.23498@vindaloo.com>, Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> wrote: >Yep, email if you'd like the url. They are on one of the berkeley.edu >machines. The url is written on my whiteboard at work. You should post it on the newsgroup and it should be linked from somewhere at http://www.freebsd.org >This is because BSD is not specific to the PC platform. The Linux >documentation that you are speaking of is specific to XFree86 and Xfree docs are at http://www.xfree86.org This should also be linked from http://www.freebsd.org >The slip information is in /usr/share/FAQ on an installed FreeBSD >system. The name of the file is Slip.FAQ. I followed this information >step by step and had slip running in 30 minutes. Anyone interested in setting up local WWW pages using file:// URL's to give people a nice overview to the docs on their system that they could browse with lynx or Arena after their install? >I've never had a problem with the documentation in FreeBSD and have >always found it to be more than adequate. I know that you don't share >that experiance My experience is that finding where the appropriate up-to-date docs are is the main problem. Especially since many docs have poor to non-existent cross referencing. > and I'm sorry this FreeBSD is giving that much >trouble. If you are saying that Linux's documentation is more helpful >to novices I agree with you. Linux isn't THAT much better. If you can find the right Howto document and it isn't out-of-date, then they are usually (but not always) helpful. >stability out of PC hardware. However, from what I see here this >situation is changing for the better because of lots of hard work from >the Core team. Kudo's to them. -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com