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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news7.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Book: The Complete FreeBSD Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 07:00:30 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32B01E0E.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <58i900$g9t@uuneo.neosoft.com> <Pine.HPP.3.95.961210091425.14654A-100000@ydale.si.sintef.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Anders Moe <anm@si.sintef.no> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32466 Anders Moe wrote: > Yes, I know. I bought it, looked at it, and returned it. The first third > consists of installation procedure, which hardly needs any explanation It could be better, and was a fairly blatant attempt to make a thin book (Installing & Running FreeBSD) into a thick one so it would fit better in a retail box. :-( That person is no longer with us and we've been talking for some time about getting more tutorials written and then publishing a "complete FreeBSD" which actually contains a lot more tutorial information - how to set up a ppp dialin server, dialout server, a news server, a web server, an X desktop environment, and so on. I dearly wish I had the time to write such a book myself. > midway-in-the-process-of-converting-from-linux-to-FreeBSD > user like myself. Then again, maybe they're not the main target here..... Perhaps not the main one, but an important one. We just need more raw material. On the bright side, the FreeBSD Documentation Project has just been re-formed with a new staff. We'll see how they do! -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project