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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!snowdon.elsevier.co.uk!news From: Paul Richards <dpr> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 7 Dec 1995 10:49:45 GMT Organization: Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK Lines: 52 Message-ID: <4a6gs9$bib@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> References: <49ssit$51@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <49ve3t$of2@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <4a03ff$htd@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <4a4at5$a49@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> <4a5kp3$8vg@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: towy.elsevier.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------301351718212373" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) X-URL: file:/home/dpr/.elm/remotesig Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29428 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9902 comp.unix.advocacy:11794 comp.unix.misc:19880 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------301351718212373 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) wrote: >Paul Richards <dpr> writes: > >>The documentation situation in FreeBSD is vastly improved and still >>getting better. You can know read the online handbook using a web browser >>and the current pages are very good. Most common tasks are now covered, >>setting up dial-up connections, printers, kernels etc and the handbook >>gets improved continually. > >Would a person installing FreeBSD for the first time >be likely to have WWW access? > All you need is a browser and FreeBSD comes with several. If you're going to read on-line docs you've got to read them with something. The docs use Linux's SGML formatting tools (modified to suit our tastes) so the only thing you can knock us on is content since we use the same documentation mechanism that you do :-) I think the content is now looking pretty good. >>If you want to get help with FreeBSD then use the mailing lists. > >Again, I doubt if most newbies would be likely to use this channel. >Maybe I'm wrong. > You are. I'd say that most newbies subscribe to our questions list and use that for support rather than the newsgroup which is *VERY* quiet in comparison. I'd 4 to 5 times as many posts go just to questions than go to this newsgroup in any one day. This is rather different to the Linux world where the newsgroups are severly overloaded and the mailing lists tend to be mainly for development discussion. ---------------------------------301351718212373 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work) ---------------------------------301351718212373--