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From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 19 Dec 1995 01:18:17 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD box
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In article <4b312c$bch@felix.junction.net>,
Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:
>In article <4asu4b$lvt@hermes.acs.unt.edu>,
>Bruce Jackson <jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu> wrote:
>>
>>FreeBSD.  I have never purchased a manual for FreeBSD UNIX because I
>>never needed it.  90% of the material from my BSD 4.3 documentation
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>from '86 is still correct for FreeBSD and any deltas are not that hard
>>to figure out.  The truth is that you don't need a manual for FreeBSD,
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>any book on BSD or general UNIX is all you need.  That is an advantage
>>to being a standard.
>
>You contradict yourself. First you say that at least 10% of the published 
>documentation that is claimed to be sufficient for FreeBSD is actually 
>incorect! An astounding figure! 

Actually FreeBSD is based on BSD4.4, not 4.3. And I don't remember anyone
claiming that 10 year old documentation for a different version of the
OS FreeBSD is based on is sufficient, but I'm open to being proved wrong.

>And then you say that you don't need a manual at all. 

He probably doesn't - I imagine a professional sysadmin with that much
experience will have worked with systems with far less documentation
than FreeBSD.

>How, pray tell, am I to know whether FreeBSD supports FDDI network cards? 

By reading section 4.10 of the FAQ?

>Does your 1986 manual explain how to install FreeBSD over a PPP connection? 

Probably not, but the installation instructions do.

Cheers
James
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