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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 7 Dec 1995 02:50:11 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4a5kp3$8vg@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ve3t$of2@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <4a03ff$htd@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4a4at5$a49@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29433 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9904 comp.unix.advocacy:11797 comp.unix.misc:19882 Paul Richards <dpr> writes: >The documentation situation in FreeBSD is vastly improved and still >getting better. You can know read the online handbook using a web browser >and the current pages are very good. Most common tasks are now covered, >setting up dial-up connections, printers, kernels etc and the handbook >gets improved continually. Would a person installing FreeBSD for the first time be likely to have WWW access? >If you want to get help with FreeBSD then use the mailing lists. Again, I doubt if most newbies would be likely to use this channel. Maybe I'm wrong. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland