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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 13 Dec 1995 04:18:35 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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On 9 Dec 1995, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
> What bookshelves? I have never seen a book anywhere on any bookshelf with
> BSD in the title. Not that it bothers me personally a lot because I *DO*
> know how to read man pages, use "strings -" on binaries, etc...
FYI, just spent 5-10 minutes on the web looking for a bookstore...
I found http://www.compubooks.com, and searched for 'bsd' in the
_title_, and found the 4.4BSD books (4), 2 TCP/IP books ('BSD Sockets'),
BSDisc (CD), and FreeBSD (CD).
So... Not a ton of books with 'BSD' in the _title_, but definitely
not "...never seen a book anywhere..."
Just for grins, I searched for 'linux', and found 15 entries. 9 books
(some with CD), and 6 CD sets. Sure, more than for 'BSD', but that
wasn't the point. I would like to see a FreeBSD and/or NetBSD book,
just as much as the next guy, but I could write it, so I'll wait.. :)
I am happy to have books for at least one free OS (Linux) available,
I just would like to see books out for 2-3 free OS's.
Just my $1.45 (heard that joke?)
-Andrew
PS. 'unix' found about 60 books. 'dos' 41, 'windows' hit the search
limit of 200. (titles only remember) So it is obvious that Windows
is far superior to anything else, particularly FreeBSD and Linux.
(do I need a ';)' or not?)
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