Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 18:20:11 -0400 From: "leegold" <goldtech@worldpost.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: any good books? Message-ID: <000501bfc8f2$e3ea30c0$cedda4d8@leegold1>
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imo, i have not seen any what i would call good documentation for fbsd (and linux) for the neophyte. of course it could be that i am stupid and do not have the mental capacity to understand the documentation (of course it would help if walnut creek had not sent me ver 4.0 w/the complete bsd book - since their are signbificant changes in the install from 3.x.x ), but all documentation i see assumes sysadmin level knowledge. plus most levels of conversation also assumes pro level knowledge. plus, most doucumentation and support i hsve seen so far in the open/fee software realm is either incomplete ( sometimes only a cheesy/lazily written readme.txt), or assumes some mystic divination on the part of the user again maybe i'm just stupid), or prof/ sysadmin knowledge. So in a nutshell, i think there there are NO good intro books on any flavor of x86 unix.. they all suck - i can't fathom any of the hundred or so i've seen on linux or freebsd. when documenting try a tree stucture, then any of the deviations of the path will take care of themselves - naw -that would make to much sense. guess i must be a stupid mofo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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