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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm.tmc.edu!newsfeed.rice.edu!oitnews.harvard.edu!cmcl2.nyu.edu!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!news.cc.sunysb.edu!cshapiro From: cshapiro@ic.sunsyb.edu (Carl S Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 3 Jan 1997 13:21:23 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 28 Message-ID: <5aj14j$ri8@abel.ic.sunysb.edu> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <mason-ya023380002012960019340001@news.four.net> <none-ya023480002012962112290001@news.infi.net> <x7zpz8wnxt.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <3a13e94547@emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de> <32CCED8B.2E73@unige.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cc.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5091 Claudio Di Martino (claudio@unige.it) wrote: [...] : I think that the informations one needs are already easily available : if one takes the time to open his eyes for the 99% of the times. Agreed. [...] : Are novices supposed to not read the docs or the FAQs? Yes, they should. [...] I think we are forgetting that the vast majority of people are very impatiant, and are interested in instant gratification. Without a user community, NetBSD will go away. NetBSD needs a nicer install program, and some kind of "getting started with NetBSD" document/book. This is one thing we should have learned from Linux a long time ago. Carl