Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 12:01:41 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: amora@zoom.es Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's FreeBSD 2.2.5 's FAQ and Handbook? Message-ID: <199711282001.MAA19575@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Nov 1997 20:35:36 GMT." <199711282033.VAA08184@silvester.zoom.es>
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>> >... >> >There's no such a thing, neither the /usr/share/doc/FAQ nor >> >/usr/share/doc/handbook >> >and find /usr -name "FAQ" has no report. >> .... >> >> It's been removed from the 2.2.5 distribution. They want you to get it >> from the web page. This is less than ideal when you are trying to get ppp >> up, and the information you need is on the other end of a wire. Perhaps if >> enough people complain, the maintainers will change there mind on the next >> release. >> >> Ron >> >> > >I cannot figure the reason for this out. Many newcomers to Un*x world >are already discouraged to try FreeBSD for its relative lack of >documentation support (Linux is far better in this aspect). Now this >is getting even worse. >Further, I don't understand what the label on the 4th CD stands for: >there are no docs nor extra utilities on it, but a CVS tree, as in >3rd CD. I'm not pretty sure those two extra CDs are of any use if >you're not connected to the Net -or your connection is not very good. My copy of the 4th CD has the ports tree on it, not the CVS tree. If your 4th CD really does have the CVS repository, then that is a production mistake. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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