Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:13:21 +0100 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org> To: jdferrell3@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated FreeBSD for Linux users article Message-ID: <47D274D1.6070102@kovesdan.org> In-Reply-To: <47D05FEC.9090109@otenet.gr> References: <566289.95610.qm@web90614.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <47D05FEC.9090109@otenet.gr>
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Manolis Kiagias escribió: > John Ferrell wrote: >> I have been working on an article entitled "FreeBSD Quickstart for >> Linux Users", a technical overview of FreeBSD for Linux users. I >> have had some feedback from this list and from some people on IRC. I >> was hoping to solicit some more feedback before I submitted it. >> http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > This is a nice, well focused writeup :) > > Two things you may wish to consider: > > - In your description of packages and pkg_add you may add a few lines > about how you can use PACKAGESITE to retrieve the latest packages from > the stable distribution. A lot of people are not aware that by default > pkg_add fetches release packages, they believe they are getting > updated ones. > > - Since you are discussing the init system and mention > /usr/local/etc/rc.d: A quick explanation about the difference between > the base system and the ports (possibly with a reference to another > document or the handbook, so you would not have to expand this a lot). > Also a mention that /etc/rc.d has the startup scripts for services in > the base distribution and /usr/local/etc/rc.d for scripts in > user-installed programs. Finding out what to write in /etc/rc.conf to > enable a service confuses most beginners, a mention of the general > rule <service>_enable="YES" or the <scriptname> rcvar to find out the > entry would be nice IMHO. > > A quick correction, in the same section, the example about apache22 is > wrong, it should read: > > # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start > > and > > # /etc/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 forcestart > John, this is a very nice work indeed. If you sent me the sources I'd me more than happy to review and commit it to the doc repository. Cheers, Gáborhome | help
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