Subject: Re: Book review: "BSD Hacks"
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: David Maxwell <david@crlf.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/14/2004 23:53:12
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> > > 	http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html#20040715
> >
> > I just saw this book at Macworld.  It didn't look too bad, though there was a
> > strange mix of up to date information and somewhat out of date information
> > about NetBSD.
> 
> Yeah. In one place it says "this will work on 2.0 and newer only", and in
> another place it doesn't even try to mention that 2.0 would do that (e.g.
> console scrolling).

The hacks were submitted by many different authors. The Editor, Dru, is
a FreeBSD-centric person, so she probably didn't feel it her place to make
changes to NetBSD related text - not being sure about correctness, I
suspect.

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David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
All this stuff in twice the space would only look half as bad!
					      - me