Well, the thing about FBSD is that it's users are pretty much all
hobbyists, so the length of a manual is a good thing. If Debian had
documentation of equal or greater length I can only see that as a
strength, not a weakness.
If you count folks like Yahoo as hobbyists.
Last time I looked, the FreeBSD community was heavier on academics and
IT professionals than hobbyists. For that matter, if you look at the
latest Netcraft survey of most reliable hosting sites
(http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/04/01/most_reliable_hosting_company_sites_in_march_2009.html)
- you'll see an awful lot of FreeBSD as well.
I haven't used BSD for about 30 years, now, and a good reference book,
that is comprehensive, is a good incentive to have another go with it.
Unless you've used a Mac recently - most of it's userland code comes
from BSD.
Miles Fidelman
note: I should mention that I run Debian on my servers - I'd be
hard-pressed to find a more convenient packaging system. But I have a
lot of respect for the BSD world.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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