From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 1 15:11:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from utep.el.utwente.nl (utep.el.utwente.nl [130.89.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F3637BE11 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A.Dergatchev@tn.utwente.nl) Received: from tn.utwente.nl (uttnb55.tn.utwente.nl [130.89.74.55]) by utep.el.utwente.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01879 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 00:12:04 +0200 Message-ID: <39874B66.446DEF7C@tn.utwente.nl> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 00:12:54 +0200 From: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view References: <000b01bff0cb$f90fe8e0$57e17ad1@beefstew> <39749BDA.8E6A214B@acuson.com> <00a101bffbf9$f88f42b0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <000a01bffbfb$b1fc2c80$1adf7ad1@beefstew> <00bd01bffc04$20562b10$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > SCO docs are certainly the best I've come across ..... I wonder have you seen Solaris docs ? just wondering. their dead paper is somewhat pricy, but when you pay, you get ... let see ... around 50 manuals - everything is explained in details. And one can get all that free online on their docs site - good one imho. and Solaris isn't the best OS for all purposes either ... as for open software - one can't expect a $.01 writting it, so how os-professionals earning $$$/h will bother ? > unlike > open source stuff ALL the info you need is readily available > in one place .... dunno if SCO is as stable as FreeBSD but > at least the issue of installation / configuration of something > different isn't the command performance it typically is with > FreeBSD. The OZ distributors run "Quarterly Business Briefings" > and usually have plenty of free copies of the manual / media packs > etc to give away so one doesn't need to spend the $120 odd that > bookshops ask for the thing. > > I'm really impressed with the reliability of FreeBSD, however the > difficulty experienced in getting unfamiliar stuff working due to the > dreadfully inadequate explanations provided in available docs is > frustrating me to the point where I'm seriously considering a move > to SCO. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message