From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 19:39:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0DF37B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:38:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 131F86AB6F; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:53:23 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:53:23 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: 'Steve M' , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs linux (some venting) Message-ID: <20010123135322.H414@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010122065047.29559.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> <010d01c08451$f39c5460$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <010d01c08451$f39c5460$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:01:47AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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