From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 29 01:46:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA20683 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 01:46:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from jazz.snu.ac.kr (jazz.snu.ac.kr [147.46.59.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA20678 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 01:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr) Received: (from junker@localhost) by jazz.snu.ac.kr (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02861; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:45:18 +0900 (KST) To: Ron Steele Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's FreeBSD 2.2.5 's FAQ and Handbook? References: <3.0.3.32.19971126103753.0069d4b8@shellhost.dc.infi.net> From: junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr (Choi, Jun Ho) Date: 29 Nov 1997 18:45:17 +0900 In-Reply-To: Ron Steele's message of Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:37:53 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Ron" == Ron Steele 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... -- --Cool FreeBSD!-----MSX Forever!-----J.U.N.K.E.R/Beat Snatchers!--- Choi, Jun Ho http://jazz.snu.ac.kr/~junker Distributed Computing System Lab,CS Dept.,Seoul National Univ., ROK