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From: tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO (Tom I Helbekkmo)
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Organization: T&T
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 20:50:53 GMT
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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, and the
4.4BSD edition of "the daemon book" just around the corner, but there
are, of course, lots of other books available about Berkeley Unix.

That's one of the great selling points of the Berkeley style Unix
implementations, I think:  They're BSD.  All of them.

Me?  I run 2.11BSD on PDP-11s and NetBSD 1.1 on i386es and VAXen.

-tih
-- 
Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO