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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:17489 comp.os.linux.misc:43051 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs Linux Date: 13 May 1995 20:49:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 20 Message-ID: <3p360d$6sp@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ovd1u$1jtd@otho.cc.flinders.edu.au> <MICHAELV.95May12203839@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3p284n$l6s@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3p284n$l6s@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: >Just as a matter of interest, I couldn't boot FreeBSD on my Pentium/PCI. >It just hung on the second (cpio) diskette. Hmmm. I urge you to retry this with the 2.0.5 release candidate, when it's out, and tell us if the problem persists. >Also, at least where I was looking, there seemed a complete lack >of documentation. There was never a _complete_ lack; you had /usr/share/man, /usr/share/FAQ, /usr/share/doc, etc. I agree that it wasn't exactly sufficient, however, and now we have the upcoming "handbook" as an attempt to improve it. You can check out its beginnings in 2.0.5 or wait for FreeBSD 2.1 and see it more fully-fleshed out. I would never even consider arguing that Linux has a major head-start in the whole documentation arena. We're doing what we can to catch up! :) Jordan