Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 22:45:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: ken@mui.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Interne Message-ID: <19980409224502.A15297@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199804092230.MAA04112@rocksalt.mui.net>; from "ken@mui.net" on Thu Apr 9 12:29:20 GMT 1998 References: <199804092124.OAA00915@dingo.cdrom.com> <199804092140.PAA04541@lariat.lariat.org> <199804092230.MAA04112@rocksalt.mui.net>
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In the last episode (Apr 09), ken@mui.net said: > > Once I got it, a few things I noticed. Linux support is awesome in > many ways. If you have a question, simply go to the irc. There's > tons of people always there, always helpful. > > That's one major difference. There's very little presence on the > FreeBSD side (on the irc). /me checks his IRC logs.. No-one from *.mui.net has joined #FreeBSD in the last year.. I'm in #FreeBSD on efnet most days, and it's been averaging around 60 people, up from ~40 last year. A few of them are usually willing to answer questions, although we sometimes get tired of PPP questions.. I go for odd compiler or hardware problems, myself. > Newsgroup support via linux is also pretty good. FreeBSD doesn't > seem to have much there. comp.unix.freebsd.* gets a couple hundred posts a day. Visible enough for me. > 6- Linux is starting to be written in lots of books. There's no link > to FreeBSD. No logical step for someone. If they have DOS, then > it's logical to get win31. if win31, then win95. If linux, then > redhat. perhaps if redhat, then FreeBSD <grin>. Greg Lehey's book > is a good start. It references FreeBSD specifically. There needs to > be more to get popular. O'Reilly would be a good place to try to > drum up support, perhaps. The reason for this is that FreeBSD wasn't created from scratch like Linux. Any book on 4.4BSD applies almost directly to FreeBSD, and there are a lot of papers on different parts of BSD Unix. They just don't have 'FreeBSD' written on them. -Dan Nelson "Genesys" on #FreeBSD dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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