From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 5 23:49:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C26F155A2 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 23:47:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 1267dz-000Hcs-00; Thu, 06 Jan 2000 09:47:39 +0200 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:47:39 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Delmir Fernandes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Not enough information Message-ID: <20000106094739.D66645@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <000801bf57c8$474e1b00$0200a8c0@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <000801bf57c8$474e1b00$0200a8c0@enteract.com> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed 2000-01-05 (16:00), Delmir Fernandes wrote: > Hi! > > I am a new Linux user and always listen to others saying that FreeBSD > is better and faster plus many large and well-known companies use > FreeBSD. If that is so... Why is Linux so much more popular? Why does > not exist enough (if any) documentation on FreeBSD? How can FreeBSD be > so much poor? I have a question. Have you read the handbook? The FAQ? The various other bits in the FreeBSD Documentation? How about logging in and looking at the man pages? Have you considered buying 'The Complete FreeBSD'? I'll ignore the rest of your message until you satisfy the requirement you've spent the time to figure this whole thing up for yourself, and not just spewing some barely-digested misinformation you've received elsewhere. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message