Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:53:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: 'Steve M' <slavik944@metconnect.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux (some venting) Message-ID: <20010123135322.H414@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <010d01c08451$f39c5460$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:01:47AM -0800 References: <20010122065047.29559.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> <010d01c08451$f39c5460$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 1:01:47 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Steve M wrote: >> >> The *nix OS' lack sufficient documentation for the average >> user. I'm a little above the average user so I've > > What an insult! What about my book that was just released? And > what about Greg's book "The Complete FreeBSD" that has been out > longer than that? What is lacking in those efforts? And, the > bookstores are stuffed with Linux books!! I wouldn't call that an insult. First, your book has really *only* *just* hit the bookstands, and secondly there's the little word "sufficient" in the original. That's pretty much an objective viewpoint. It would be better to ask what's missing. > Your not going to get a manual, bound and all that, for the $30 > distribution cost of the CDs! For that matter you don't get a > manual with Microsoft's products either unless you spend $150 for > the Resourse Kit > >> I'm not a geek nor do I profess to be one, I just dont have the >> time to putz around with a minor thing as compared to MS's way of >> doing something. > > If you took someone who has never seen, never touched a computer > before and sat them in front of a FreeBSD system, I wager it would > take just as long to train them to use it as to train them to > use Windows. MS's way only seems easier because you learned it > first. Indeed. That's my problem with your book :-) You assume that people already know Microsoft. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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