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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!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: 5 Dec 1995 00:24:15 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4a03ff$htd@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ve3t$of2@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29997 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10226 comp.unix.advocacy:12052 comp.unix.misc:20011 uphya001@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller) writes: >|> >Please refer to the FreeBSD documentation >|> >for supping the -current or -stable trees. >|> >|> Which FreeBSD documentation? >|> The last time I looked the FreeBSD documentation >|> was in a terrible shambles. >|> I wouldn't recomment FreeBSD to anyone who is not familiar with BSD Unix >|> unless this has been cleaned up. > What are you talking about? Do you really think not seeing a book > with 'FreeBSD How To Do" on the cover there are no good documentation > available? If you took the trouble to read the item you are supposedly replying to, you will see that the original poster spoke of the "FreeBSD documentation", and that is what I was referring to in response. I take it that "Free BSD Documentation" means "documentation which comes with the FreeBSD system". The tone of your posting, which is unfortunately all too common with FreeBSD fanatics (though not, I would say, with Jordan Hubbard, who seems by far the most active person in the FreeBSD field) is one of the reasons why I would recommend any newbie to start with Linux, at least if they are at all likely to need assistance. I am, incidentally, sending this from a FreeBSD machine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland