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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood



Chris Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 06:12:35AM EDT, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:
>>>  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
>>> It is also available as a pdf which is >1000 pages!  It doesn't cover
>>> everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have other books and
>>> articles at http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html.
>>>
>> That sounds more like a problem than a solution. I would not try an OS
>> that had a 1000 page manual. I want simple, not comprehensive.
> 
> I don't know about their more recent consumer-grade offering but you may
> want to take a look at Windows '98. When I got the laptop, it came with
> a 20-page or so manual. But then considering the "capabilities" of the
> OS that was probably overkill anyway.

That wrongly assumes anything Windows is a modern OS, when in reality
it's just a rehash of the worst ideas CP/M and VMS had to offer.

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