From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 1 19: 7:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD4137BF7E for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:07:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16221; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:07:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdb16219; Wed Aug 2 12:07:02 2000 Message-ID: <003b01bffc26$f1c72420$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Toby Swanson" , "'leegold'" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" References: <01BFFBE7.61D79A00@rigel.milkyway.org> Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:11:15 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My point was / is that there's nothing wrong with the reliability of FreeBSD, however its badly lacking in usable "how to get blah working in 5 steps" type documentation. If that issue could be properly resolved it would certainly challenge Solaris / SCO etc The manual & Complete FreeBSD still lack a heap of the essential details needed to get stuff working quickly .... to get something unfamiliar working one has to read disjointed bits of this & bits of that, attempt to piece the lot together so its halfway intelligible, then post heaps of questions to the list and hope someone has been down the exact same road recently and remembers how to solve the issue. That's maybe OK for hackers with unlimited resources of time, but its not practical for businesses who just need the thing working yesterday. I regularly come across consultants in the same position as I am .... tried FreeBSD, loved its reliability, but eventually got so frustrated with poorly documented config issues that they moved their clients to a less stable but better documented O/S. I've tried to write some "real world" docs and have received countless compliments for what I've done, but pressures of time make it very difficult just figuring stuff out leaving no spare minutes to put what I've learned into text. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Toby Swanson" To: "'leegold'" Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 8:36 AM Subject: RE: new books, changing my pt. of view > On 08/01/00 leegold wrote; > > > SCO has the rep. of being the best documented - is this true? > > > I last admin'ed an Openserver 5.? box and the docs were very > thorough. The company I worked for paid HUNDREDS of dollars > for the docs and a couple thousand for the OS plus several > hundred more for a 5 problem per year service contract. > Compared to FreeBSD on the same hardware SCO seemed much slower. > FreeBSD also seemed more stable and reliable and was easier to > install and configure. > > If you have more money than time SCO may be the way to go. IMHO, > FreeBSD is better general purpose OS. > > Toby > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message