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From: Chris Brown <CBROWN@seitz.com>
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Subject: Finding documentation for FreeBSD.
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     I am getting ready to build up several servers for mail, web 
server, ftp server, DNS etc. and several lower level machines for 
remote site routing and mail.  The systems that are being seriously 
considered are FreeBSD and Linux.  I have been gravitating tward 
Linux primarily because the documentation is easier to find and seams 
to be in a format that is more simple to use.  The UN*X world in 
general is fairly new to me and documentation and support at this 
time are extremely important.

     What are the best sources of documentation other than the 
FreeBSD handbook and the FAQs.

     Is there a compelling reason to use FreeBSD over Linux?  For 
some time our servers will be fairly bandwidth limited so I don't see 
that there will be a large enough difference in performance to be 
noticed for some time.