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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.av.qnet.com!ibbs!js From: js@ibbs.av.org (Jeff Stillinger) Subject: Re: FreeBSD documentation X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Coffee Radio Difference Committee Message-ID: <DJqu5w.GCG@ibbs.av.org> References: <4171002512@f401.n711.z3.ftn> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 18:32:19 GMT Lines: 39 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? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Stillinger - KB6IBB js@ibbs.av.org PSC Box 3429 js@red-eft.la.ca.us Edwards AFB, CA 93524 +1 805 258 7303 8N1 Flight Test Center, crashing aircraft so you don't have too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------