From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 29 18:35:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA07906 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:35:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from proxy4.ba.best.com (root@proxy4.ba.best.com [206.184.139.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA07901 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsampley@best.com) Received: from shell9.ba.best.com (bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com [206.184.139.140]) by proxy4.ba.best.com (8.8.7/8.8.BEST) with SMTP id SAA15557; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:33:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 18:33:39 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley X-Sender: bsampley@shell9.ba.best.com To: "Jesus A. Mora Marin" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where's FreeBSD 2.2.5 's FAQ and Handbook? In-Reply-To: <199711282033.VAA08184@silvester.zoom.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. I would have to disagree with you on this! I have found the documentation for FBSD to be very clear and concise. I have been able to find the information I feel is necessary to get the job done. I'm really sorry you feel this way about FBSD. I have tried some other more expensive releases of Unix (ie, commercial products) and found their documentation to be severely lacking and extremely difficult to use. BTW, I also started learning about Unix with Slackware 3.0 CD which came with a monolithic book from Sams Publishing. I have found the documentation in FBSD to be superior (then both the book and how-to's include with the Slackware release). > 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. >From memory (I haven't looked at the 4th cd recently) I believe the 4th CDROM actually contains the ports collection and distfiles. They can be used to build applications from source code. > > Jesus > ------ > Jesus A. Mora Marin, MD (aka EA7HAC, ex-EC7DVE) > Email: amora@zoom.es >