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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!aggedor.rmit.edu.au!phillip From: phillip@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au (Phillip Musumeci) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 07 Dec 1995 13:22:21 GMT Organization: Computer Systems Engineering Department, RMIT Australia Lines: 44 Message-ID: <PHILLIP.95Dec8002221@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> References: <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ve3t$of2@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <4a03ff$htd@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4a4at5$a49@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> <4a5kp3$8vg@bell.maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: phillip@cse.rmit.edu.au NNTP-Posting-Host: pm.cse.rmit.edu.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-reply-to: tim@maths.tcd.ie's message of 7 Dec 1995 02:50:11 -0000 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:30527 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10590 comp.unix.advocacy:12255 comp.unix.misc:20129 >>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> writes: Timothy> Would a person installing FreeBSD for the first time be likely Timothy> to have WWW access? For FreeBSD-2.1R, the documentation comes in HTML and ascii format in areas such as: josephine$ ls -l /usr/share/doc total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 3584 Dec 1 06:49 FAQ drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 7680 Dec 1 06:50 handbook drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 512 Dec 1 06:50 papers drwxr-xr-x 13 bin bin 512 Dec 1 06:50 psd drwxr-xr-x 14 bin bin 512 Dec 1 06:50 smm drwxr-xr-x 13 bin bin 512 Dec 1 06:50 usd josephine$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/handbook | head -11 total 1780 -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 604774 Nov 16 20:50 handbook.ascii -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 8796 Nov 16 20:50 handbook.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 811 Nov 16 20:50 handbook1.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 1593 Nov 16 20:50 handbook10.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 3165 Nov 16 20:50 handbook100.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 7433 Nov 16 20:50 handbook101.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 5646 Nov 16 20:50 handbook102.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 2904 Nov 16 20:50 handbook103.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 33428 Nov 16 20:50 handbook104.html -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 13994 Nov 16 20:50 handbook105.html It is quite handy. phillip -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Phillip Musumeci __ /\ Postal Address: Telephone: / \/ \ Dept. of Computer Systems Engineering ++61 3 96605317(w1) / \ RMIT ++61 3 96605383(w2) / / GPO Box 2476V ++61 3 96605340(fax) \ __ / Melbourne VIC 3001. AUSTRALIA RMIT Building 87.2.15, `-' \*/ EMAIL: phillip@cse.rmit.edu.au 410 Elizabeth Street. . WWW: http://www.cse.rmit.edu.au/~rdspm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A good environment for the teaching of "modern" microprocessors? One where the students were conceived *before* the microprocessor. --pm