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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 11:48:36 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Plan to incorporate chapter 2 of the 4.4BSD book 
Message-ID:  <17460.957260916@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:01:11 %2B0100." <20000430140111.O706@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> 

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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 14:01:11 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:

> Done that now.  Hmm.  I don't see this as being Handbook material.  At 
> least, not new user material.  It's interesting from a historical 
> perspective, but the information about how the system is seen from the 
> kernels point of view isn't really important for a new user.

I don't agree with this at all.  I think that it's a very useful
introduction to BSD UNIX.  I wish I'd had something like this to explain
how process management and filesystems (in particular) work in general
terms when I was starting out.

However, I do agree that it might be better handled as an article,
recommended from within the Handbook.  My only concern is that it should
be recommended for new-comers as well.  It shouldn't in any way be
ear-marked as something for developers.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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