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From: Paul Richards <dpr>
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 10:49:45 GMT
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tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote:
>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?
>

All you need is a browser and FreeBSD comes with several. If you're going
to read on-line docs you've got to read them with something.

The docs use Linux's SGML formatting tools (modified to suit our tastes)
so the only thing you can knock us on is content since we use the
same documentation mechanism that you do :-)

I think the content is now looking pretty good.

>>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.
>

You are. I'd say that most newbies subscribe to our questions list and
use that for support rather than the newsgroup which is *VERY* quiet
in comparison. I'd 4 to 5 times as many posts go just to questions than go
to this newsgroup in any one day.

This is rather different to the Linux world where the newsgroups are severly
overloaded and the mailing lists tend to be mainly for development
discussion.

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  Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd.
  Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk
  Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)

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