Subject: Re: a non-original idea.
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Sean Berry at CSI <berry@neverland.chaney.net>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/16/1998 21:45:36
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 21:45:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sean Berry at CSI <berry@neverland.chaney.net>
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
cc: perry@piermont.com, root@garbled.net, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: a non-original idea.
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Perhaps "How to get X running with a workstation monitor"

The 386 running a modem and doing NAT/PAT is very popular around here.

I've also done a kiosk style system with netscape people seem to like, I'd
be glad to write up.

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 05:54:46PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > > Somehow, a dump of man pages wouldn't seem quite as sexy as a full-blown
> > > book with a nice, glossy cover, a full-blown tutorial, and lots of practical
> > > information.
> > 
> > Have you ever seen the *full* BSD manuals?
> 
> No... What are they like?
> 
> Anyway, I still think a "practical guide to NetBSD"-type book would be
> ideal for our purposes. Perhaps including full BSD manuals would be
> a good thing, though... <shrug> Where can I find them, to look at them?
> 
> There are lots of not-straight-BSD things that ought to be covered in
> our book, of course... For instance, XFree86 and X on non-Intel NetBSD
> platforms would be worth covering.
> 
> -- 
> Mason Loring Bliss..mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us..acheron.dyn.ml.org/mason
> "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
>   dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;
>