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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!news.bc.net!felix.junction.net!okjunc.junction.net!michael From: michael@okjunc.junction.net (Michael Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 12 Dec 1995 05:59:00 GMT Organization: Okanagan Internet Junction, Vernon B.C., Canada Lines: 53 Message-ID: <4aj5n4$ve2@felix.junction.net> References: <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4a4at5$a49@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> <4abjgf$dap@felix.junction.net> <DJBq8I.Ipy@midway.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: okjunc.junction.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30050 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10264 comp.unix.advocacy:12082 comp.unix.misc:20031 In article <DJBq8I.Ipy@midway.uchicago.edu>, Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote: >>But the lack of FreeBSD books is clearly one of the greatest failures of >>the FreeBSD project. Read the following statement to see why. >> >> The simple fact of the matter is that there's little >> reason for FreeBSD to exist because it's *UNIX* and >> the world is full of Unices. >> >>I suspect you disagree with that statement. Can you also see why people >>would disagree that there is no need for a FreeBSD book (or two or three) >>merely because some other books cover the same topic material? > >No, I don't see why. What is that reason? First you tell me why the world needs FreeBSD when SCO UNIX is available and has so much more support from hardware manufacturers and software vendors. [Tim's eloquent dissertation deleted] OK, you make a good case for how FreeBSD provides capabilities that SCO UNIX does not. Why not write that in a book. You explained to me how FreeBSD does many things better than SCO UNIX. Why not write that in a book. You explained to me how the FreeBSD install procedure works, much nicer than SCO's. Why not document that in a book. You pointed out how there is online docs in /usr/share/doc. How about putting that fact in a book and maybe some of the docs too. You explained to me how the core-team and open CVS tree model of development works. By gum! you've got another chapter for that book. When I asked you to show me the section in the 4.4BSD manuals on choosing a high-speed network card, you couldn't, but you seemed to be well-informed about the DEC FDDI cards, one of which is running a FreeBSD router attached to one of the root nameservers. Of course, not only is this fact not in any book, it's not in any FreeBSD mailing list archive or in the archives of this newgroup. Is it any wonder I suggest that FreeBSD needs a book. Darn it, if I had my new machine in here, I'd be running FreeBSD as my home LAN server (SAMBA, Appletalk, 24hr Internet connection) and I'd be writing the book myself, but sadly.... I still don't have the spare hardware to dedicate to documenting a system setup from scratch. So here I am, foregoing fame and riches by explaining to the WHOLE WORLD why FreeBSD needs a book or two or three and at least one originally written in German too. This last is more important than you may think. -- Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-542-4130 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com