Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 13:56:17 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Woodman <keith@lightningweb.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981215135425.23499A-100000@nefertiti.lightningweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199812152148.NAA29984@root.com>
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Well. It's installing well now over the net at a scnat 25k. Looks like i'll be here for a bit.. Thank you for the info and advise. Once again, my appologise to all I offended by jumping to the defensive so quick. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Woodman Technical Coordinator Keith@lightningweb.com Lightningweb LLC pid 7962 (sniffit), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, David Greenman wrote: > > It is a fair observation you must admit that FreeBSD does cater > >more to the experienced users and hackers of a different ilk than does > >other flavors of Unix. My appologise to anyone that took that posting > >wrong. > > That is probably true, but it isn't because of snobery. I think it's > because of several factors, with the most important being that the people > who develop and document FreeBSD aren't newbies themselves and, that being > the case, it is natural for them to assume knowledge of some things that > perhaps shouldn't be assumed. > We can only improve on this type of problem by having newcomers politely > suggest, to the right people, improvements to the documentation and/or > organization of the FTP/WWW sites. For the WWW stuff, you might try sending > suggestions to www@freebsd.org. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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