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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Book: The Complete FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 07:00:30 -0800
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To: Anders Moe <anm@si.sintef.no>
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Anders Moe wrote:
> Yes, I know. I bought it, looked at it, and returned it. The first  third
> consists of installation procedure, which hardly needs any explanation

It could be better, and was a fairly blatant attempt to make a thin book
(Installing & Running FreeBSD) into a thick one so it would fit better
in a retail box. :-(  That person is no longer with us and we've been
talking for some time about getting more tutorials written and then
publishing a "complete FreeBSD" which actually contains a lot more
tutorial information - how to set up a ppp dialin server, dialout
server, a news server, a web server, an X desktop environment, and so
on.

I dearly wish I had the time to write such a book myself.

> midway-in-the-process-of-converting-from-linux-to-FreeBSD
> user  like myself. Then again, maybe they're not the main target here.....

Perhaps not the main one, but an important one.  We just need more raw
material.  On the bright side, the FreeBSD Documentation Project has
just been re-formed with a new staff.  We'll see how they do!
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project