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#! rnews 1665 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!f400.n712!f515.n712!f401.n711!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Distribution: world X-Comment-To: michael@okjunc.junction.net From: Trev Roydhouse <Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 95 22:14:00 +1100 Subject: FreeBSD documentation Message-ID: <4171002512@f401.n711.z3.ftn> Organization: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia X-FTN-AREA: COMP.UNIX.BSD.FREEBSD.MISC X-FTN-Tearline: QM v1.30 X-FTN-Origin: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (3:711/401.0) X-FTN-SEEN-BY: 711/401 501 712/400 515 X-FTN-PATH: 711/401 712/515 X-FTN-PATH: 712/400 Lines: 22 >> What about the complete 4.4-BSD documentation set (5 >> books with approx 3900 pages!, Prog. Ref. Man., >> User's Ref. Man., User's Supplementary Doc., Prog. >> Suppl. Doc., and System Managers Man.). > None of that stuff is FreeBSD documentation and most > of it is useless to FreeBSD newbies. The reason that it > is useless is that when somebody walks into a bookstore > and asks for FreeBSD books and the clerk says sorry we > don't have any but there is this 4.4BSD stuff and the > newbie says do you think that would cover FreeBSD > 2.1 and the clerk says I dunno, well, then you have a > newbie with no documentation at all and that is > pretty useless if you ask me. I would imagine that any "newbie" who could read would notice the words on the front of the CD-ROM case or perhaps on the CD-ROM itself which state: "A full 4.4BSD lite based 32 bit operating system". trev@asstdc.com.au