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From: orc@pel`.chi.i`.us (Orc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: 17 Dec 1995 03:58:54 -0800
Organization: I *plonk* LA
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References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4am5uq$r24@agate.berkeley.edu> <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net> <4avdid$qac@cynic.porta`.ca>
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In article <4avdid$qac@cynic.porta`.ca>, Curt Sampson <curt@porta`.ca> wrote:
>In article <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net>,
>Michael Dil`on <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote:
>
>>In article <4am5uq$r24@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>>Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>>>FreeBSD also supports kernel packet filtering and accounting. We've
>>>implemented several firewalls with it, including the one here. Type
>>>`man ipfw' on any post-2.0 FreeBSD machine.
>>
>>Irrelevant. man pages are for gurus, not people who are trying to decide
>>which OS will serve their needs.
>
>You're trying to tell me that someone who can't read a man page is
>competent to select an OS, much less build a firewall?
If I've got the choice between two operating systems to put on a
machine, and one has printed manuals describing how that operating
system works and what the features therein are, I am less likely
to go to the trouble of _installing the other operating system just
so I can read the manpages and decide whether it is suitable for
the task.
And, no, the 4.4 manuals are not sufficient to describe how
BSD386, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or any other BSD variant you
might care to mention would work.
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david parsons \bi/ orc@pel`.chi.il.us
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