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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!handbag.tecc.co.uk!parody.tecc.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@parody.tecc.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too) Date: 19 Dec 1995 01:18:17 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD box Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4b53sp$1vi@parody.tecc.co.uk> References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu> <4asu4b$lvt@hermes.acs.unt.edu> <4b312c$bch@felix.junction.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31255 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11053 In article <4b312c$bch@felix.junction.net>, Michael Dillon <michael@okjunc.junction.net> wrote: >In article <4asu4b$lvt@hermes.acs.unt.edu>, >Bruce Jackson <jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu> wrote: >> >>FreeBSD. I have never purchased a manual for FreeBSD UNIX because I >>never needed it. 90% of the material from my BSD 4.3 documentation > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>from '86 is still correct for FreeBSD and any deltas are not that hard >>to figure out. The truth is that you don't need a manual for FreeBSD, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>any book on BSD or general UNIX is all you need. That is an advantage >>to being a standard. > >You contradict yourself. First you say that at least 10% of the published >documentation that is claimed to be sufficient for FreeBSD is actually >incorect! An astounding figure! Actually FreeBSD is based on BSD4.4, not 4.3. And I don't remember anyone claiming that 10 year old documentation for a different version of the OS FreeBSD is based on is sufficient, but I'm open to being proved wrong. >And then you say that you don't need a manual at all. He probably doesn't - I imagine a professional sysadmin with that much experience will have worked with systems with far less documentation than FreeBSD. >How, pray tell, am I to know whether FreeBSD supports FDDI network cards? By reading section 4.10 of the FAQ? >Does your 1986 manual explain how to install FreeBSD over a PPP connection? Probably not, but the installation instructions do. Cheers James -- Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'