Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:06:45 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I like Ubuntu Message-ID: <20070415050645.GD75277@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <46212CD6.9020702@u.washington.edu> References: <1176551927.6799.9.camel@FreeBSD.localhost> <462122E2.20207@u.washington.edu> <20070414192420.GH302@demeter.hydra> <46212CD6.9020702@u.washington.edu>
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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 But some of the manpages are out of date, like for the coreutils (I 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 And a yup on the outdated docs too. There is a seriously K00L music app (Gnome), but the documentation was way out of date in '06.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
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