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From: js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD documentation
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 18:32:19 GMT
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Trev Roydhouse (Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org) wrote:
: >> What about the complete 4.4-BSD documentation set (5
: >> books with approx 3900 pages!, Prog. Ref. Man.,
: >> User's Ref. Man., User's Supplementary Doc., Prog.
: >> Suppl. Doc., and System Managers Man.).
: > None of that stuff is FreeBSD documentation and most
: > of it is useless to FreeBSD newbies. The reason that it
: > is useless is that when somebody walks into a bookstore
: > and asks for FreeBSD books and the clerk says sorry we
: > don't have any but there is this 4.4BSD stuff and the
: > newbie says do you think that would cover FreeBSD
: > 2.1 and the clerk says I dunno, well, then you have a
: > newbie with no documentation at all and that is
: > pretty useless if you ask me.
: I would imagine that any "newbie" who could read would notice the words on the
: front of the CD-ROM case or perhaps on the CD-ROM itself which state: "A full
: 4.4BSD lite based 32 bit operating system".
: trev@asstdc.com.au
Oh my excuse me for wanting to use one of the better products out there. I
am so sorry that I don't sit in front of a computer all day and night. I
am so sorry that I have a life. A computer is here to serve not to be served.
I would agree that the above talked about books are NOT FreeBSD books. I
feel sorry for the newbie's. I am just coming out of that myself. FreeBSD
fought me all the way during it's birth. So I guess the big question is
what do we do, and how do we do it?
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