Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:45:17 +0900 From: junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr (Choi, Jun Ho) To: Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's FreeBSD 2.2.5 's FAQ and Handbook? Message-ID: <wklny811aq.fsf@jazz.snu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: Ron Steele's message of Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:37:53 -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971125211224.1037A-100000@shawn.cpl.net> <3.0.3.32.19971126103753.0069d4b8@shellhost.dc.infi.net>
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>>>>> "Ron" == Ron Steele <ron@dc.infi.net> writes:
Ron> It's been removed from the 2.2.5 distribution. They want you
Ron> to get it from the web page. This is less than ideal when
Ron> you are trying to get ppp up, and the information you need is
Ron> on the other end of a wire. Perhaps if enough people
Ron> complain, the maintainers will change there mind on the next
Ron> release.
I can't understand why the maintainers did such a thing. In my country,
Linux is dominant, because there are some of enthusiastic volunteers
and many document resource(more than FreeBSD) written in Korean. Though
I have 2.2.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek(no company sells it in Korea, so
I had to buy it from WC directly) and I have a good network connection
in my school, but I use FreeBSD in my home, and I have only telephone
connection in my home.
I think there are many people who use FreeBSD with no network
connection or just a phone line, so it's a bad idea that whoever wants
to get the documentation of FreeBSD must try to connect the main FreeBSD
site or near mirrors... Offline documentation in the binary tree,
though it is somewhat old, is invaluable information to me.
Should all people using FreeBSD connect to one of the FreeBSD
site just to read some hint for his trouble? I don't think so...
I hope the next release of FreeBSD will contain the Handbook and FAQ
like the good old days...
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Choi, Jun Ho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr> http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker
Distributed Computing System Lab,CS Dept.,Seoul National Univ., ROK
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