From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 15 05:05:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C27916A406 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0975F13C45A for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:05:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3F56lDn075781; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:06:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l3F56j1R075780; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:06:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:06:45 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20070415050645.GD75277@thought.org> References: <1176551927.6799.9.camel@FreeBSD.localhost> <462122E2.20207@u.washington.edu> <20070414192420.GH302@demeter.hydra> <46212CD6.9020702@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46212CD6.9020702@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: Chad Perrin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:05:16 -0000 On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 12:34:46PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > >On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > > >>Also, it's Linux-based so documentation in terms of manpages are most > >>likely non-existent, like with Gentoo Linux. > >> > > > >That's by no means universal among Linux distributions. Debian actually > >provides better manpage coverage than FreeBSD, for instance. > But some of the manpages are out of date, like for the coreutils (I > think mv/cp was one of them?). I like the comment in there about > Stallman liking infopages but Debian-ites having to create a manpage :). > I personally hate infopages, but that's me. > You're not the only one who destest those bleeping "info"-type writeups. Forward and BAckwards make sense; but then what is Up/Down? And a yup on the outdated docs too. There is a seriously K00L music app (Gnome), but the documentation was way out of date in '06. ((But then, I'd much rather code 1,000 lines that write just a few ages of docs, so, I understand the problem. Code you can *read* and figure out. Different with even good docs. I think the best man pages include a feew examples... . gary PS: if only we could be god-for-a-day,huh:-) :-) > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix