Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:01:47 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "'Steve M'" <slavik944@metconnect.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs linux (some venting) Message-ID: <010d01c08451$f39c5460$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010122065047.29559.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net>
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> >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!! 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. >But I dislike MS for their business practices if anything, >they totally insist on doing things in such a way > that is to pretend there is no other way besides their way. > Right - because they market to one-dimensional users that are scared if they are given 2 different ways to solve a problem, and asked to choose the best one. >Thanks for letting me vent and I hope I've got this stupid >email formatted in a readable form. > >FWIW, >Steve M > You do. Go ahead and vent. But, stop by the bookstore before condemming the lack of docs. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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