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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!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!snowdon.elsevier.co.uk!news 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: 6 Dec 1995 14:55:33 GMT Organization: Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK Lines: 46 Message-ID: <4a4at5$a49@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> References: <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ve3t$of2@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <4a03ff$htd@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: isis.elsevier.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:4a03ff$htd@bell.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30246 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10404 comp.unix.advocacy:12185 comp.unix.misc:20085 tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote: >> 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? I'd say this was a bit of a gut reaction since there's always this accusation that there's no available documentation for FreeBSD when the simple fact of the matter is that there's little reason for a FreeBSD specific admin book since it's *BSD* and the bookshelves are full of the things. > >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 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. > >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. If you want to get help with FreeBSD then use the mailing lists. This is the first time I've read these newsgroups in many many months and things haven't changed at all. Most of the the threads are cross-posts devoted to slagging off each other's OS, (mainly linux<->BSD comparisons). It's not surprising that the type of response you get to questions here is blunt since you're not in the best frame of mind when you come across genuine questions :-) If you mail the mailing lists you'll find most people very happy to help out new users in a very polite and friendly manner.