Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!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: Linux or FreeBSD Date: 28 Aug 1995 21:20:34 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 45 Message-ID: <41t8ei$bsv@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <40alp5$psg@agate.berkeley.edu> <413bkc$3t2@kadath.zeitgeist.net> <1995Aug24.222509.28085@state.systems.sa.gov.au> <41ko58$rqh@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> <41l9eo$17h@park.uvsc.edu> <41nfbu$sg@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <DDxG0B.95K@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes: >: Linux has excellent books as part of the standard distribution; >: FreeBSD does not. >Um, no. To wit: >4.4BSD System Manager's Manual >4.4BSD User's Reference Manual >4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents >4.4BSD Programmer's Reference Manual >4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents You didn't read what I said, or else misunderstood it. I was referring to _free_ documentation, in particular to the Linux Documentation Project (LDP), eg ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP (This is included in all Linux CD-ROMs I have seen. I think it is also included in the Slackware distribution, probably in diskettes 'y'.) You will find there half a dozen books, each several hundred pages long, in LaTeX. They are excellent. Eg "Linux Installation and Getting Started", "Linux Network Administrators Guide", "Linux Users Guide", "Linux Kernel Hackers Guide". By contrast, I found the "FreeBSD Handbook" quite difficult to dig out of the BSD archives, and not nearly as good as the above books. Let me repeat: I am not trying to start a Linux-FreeBSD war. The world is big enough for Mozart and Beethoven. I believe that FreeBSD would do much better if it looked to its _free_ documentation. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland