----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Warren <clovis@home.com>
To: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: cryptic startup and manual help


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
>
> <snips>
>
> > Go to your favorite local bookstore and look for some of the books
> > published by O'Reilly & Associates. "UNIX in a Nutshell" is a good book,
> > as are "Managing NFS and NIS" and "Essential System Administration". I'm
> > sure there are other good books, but those are the ones I use regularly.
> >
> > UNIX systems are powerful and complex. You learn how to use these
systems
> > over time, and not over night.
> >
>
> Well, do you want people to use it or not?  I've been VERY hestitant to
use
> NetBSD despite thinking it is in very many ways superior precisely because
> it is so dense that it has always seemed to me that people who aren't de
> facto gurus with the system need not apply.
>
> Thanks for the hints on the books.  If one of these titles pans out, I'll
> give it a shot.  I already know how to use UNIX systems.  But as to how to
> administer them in detail, and how to use the likes of FreeBSD or other
> executables, I'm entirely lost.
>
> I think Net and Open won't get much of a user base until someone comes up
> with a survival guide something like Lehey's for Free.  IMHO, YMMV etc.
>
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