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Xref: sserve comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:4312 comp.unix.bsd:12527 comp.os.linux:54307 comp.unix.questions:38656 comp.os.mach:3245 comp.unix.solaris:6081 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!not-for-mail From: stripes@biolante.UU.NET (Josh Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.questions,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Unix close for 486 - commens requested Date: 1 Sep 1993 14:48:08 -0400 Organization: AlterNet -- Falls Church, Virginia, USA Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <262qp8INNglq@biolante.UU.NET> References: <23r8kl$la4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CC0vJ7.tLB@austin.ibm.com> <CC28u4.21M@gator.oau.org> <2532j3$aq9@hp-col.col.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: biolante.uu.net In article <2532j3$aq9@hp-col.col.hp.com>, Bdale Garbee <bdale@col.hp.com> wrote: >Larry D Snyder (larry@gator.oau.org) wrote: >: I've heard excellent things about BSD/386 from several folks here >: in the net -- and I'm just about ready to send off for information > >: what type of documentation comes with it? > >A printed installation guide that's well balanced between terseness and >completeness. The remainder of the documentation is all online, as man pages >or other document files... not to mention the sourcecode itself. If you can, >go for the CDROM distribution, as you can put the disk online and have all the >goodies up for perusal without soaking your hard disk. [...] In addition if you have IP conectivity to the net you can use the hypertext version of the BSDI man pages, the URL for BSDI's home page is http://www.bsdi.com/, and the URL for the man pages is http://www.bsdi.com/bsdi-man/, feel free to look at the before you buy. (the BSDI web site also has lots of info on BSDI) -- Not speaking for UUNET Technologies