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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Documentation project (was Re: Slight flame from Linux user) Date: 7 Jun 1995 22:14:46 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3r54s6$cg2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3r20g7$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> <3r29g0$q4q@canyon.sr.hp.com> <3r327q$isu@pandora.sdsu.edu> <3r4gtk$91e@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) writes: >It would be a good thing to get FreeBSD and Linux's documentation to >the level where someone need not know much more about the system than >how to install DOS could do it. In the end all this will do is create >more Unix users from the vast pool of MS-DOS users out there now. I think this has already been done for Linux, with "Linux Installation and Getting Started". This is available in LaTeX as part of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP): ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP/install-guide . You can also find there a network-guide, a programmers-guide, a users-guide and a system-admin-guide. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland