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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!newshub.sdsu.edu!saturn!larryr From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Documentation project (was Re: Slight flame from Linux user) Date: 7 Jun 1995 02:17:29 GMT Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3r327q$isu@pandora.sdsu.edu> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qvtjg$p3h@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3r01r6$o8p@park.uvsc.edu> <3r06il$7ln@canyon.sr.hp.com> <3r1qum$1l7@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <3r20g7$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> <3r29g0$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: saturn.sdsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Darryl Okahata (darrylo@sr.hp.com) wrote: > I'd like to point out that there are a number of > books on Linux out there, and very few (none?) on FreeBSD. I live > somewhat in the boonies (~60 mi. N. of San Francisco), and a (big) > bookstore here has at least a half-dozen books on Linux. I couldn't > find a single one on FreeBSD. I'm no Linux expert, but it sounds kind of scary to me that there would need to be books specifically about it when there are hundreds, if not thousands of books about Unix, which is what FreeBSD is. After using SunOS 4.x, I had no problem with installing and administrating FreeBSD 2.x because it was not very different - I don't see why it would need to have its own book. What is it about Linux that requires a separate book? Why would a system be created that is sort of like Unix, but only sort of, such that the existing base of Unix documentation would be inadequate? Larry