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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 00:11:19 GMT
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In article <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie>,
Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) writes:
>
>>Please refer to the FreeBSD documentation
>>for supping the -current or -stable trees.
>
>I wouldn't recomment FreeBSD to anyone who is not familiar with BSD Unix
>unless this has been cleaned up.
>
Actually, I was only familiar with SVR3 when I got started with BSD :-).
I am quite suprised that it would be difficult for anyone familiar with
relatively standard versions of UNIX to navigate their way around FreeBSD.

Please refer to /usr/share/doc, /usr/share/FAQ (I think that the info is there.)Also, there is a fairly large project to produce SGML/HTML documentation.
Since I do not participate in that part of the project, I refer you to the
FreeBSD mailing lists for information as to its location, also the www site
www.freebsd.org has lots of useful info (and is reasonably quick, since it
is a FreeBSD site, although very heavily loaded!!!).

John
dyson@freebsd.org