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Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 18 Dec 1995 23:32:29 -0800
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In article <DJsv8t.7po@hamartun.priv.no>,
Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO> wrote:
>Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> seemingly claims that
>FreeBSD doesn't exist, because there are no published books about it
>available in bookstores. Linux, on the other hand, does exist in
>Michael's universe, because books have been published and sold for
>money about it.
>
>Well, Michael, I've got news for you: FreeBSD (and NetBSD, and BSD/OS,
>and 386BSD, and even 4.4BSD itself) _do_ indeed exist! Not only is
>the "Unix System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder and
>Seebass now available in a new, updated-for-4.4BSD edition,
It doesn't say bugger all about installing FreeBSD, and I'll bet
that it doesn't say a single thing about things like the soft fonts
that you can load on a VGA screen.
You're doing FreeBSD a great disservice by pretending that it
doesn't differ one whit from vanilla 4.4. You look at a book on
system administration (which people do use for administering other
systems, like, say, Linux) and try to pretend that that's all
someone needs, while ignoring the features that differentiate
FreeBSD from NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSDI, BSD386, or berkeley 4.1.
*Do* enjoy trying to kill off your operating system of choice.
I can see one reason why the books on installing and running FreeBSD
aren't popping off the bookshelves -- with k-RAD d00dz like yourself
proudly proclaiming that they won't read them, why waste the time
writing the goddamn book?
____
david parsons \bi/ How much would I have to bribe you to convert
\/ to Windows 95?