From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 8 11:31:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C86031065670 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:31:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@kovesdan.org) Received: from viefep33-int.chello.at (viefep18-int.chello.at [213.46.255.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B86E8FC12 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:31:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@kovesdan.org) Received: from edge.upc.biz ([192.168.13.239]) by viefep18-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20080308111330.DDZ22195.viefep18-int.chello.at@edge.upc.biz>; Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:13:30 +0100 Received: from [86.101.216.116] ([86.101.216.116]) by edge.upc.biz with edge04 id ybDS1Y01m2XFeYu0100000; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:13:30 +0100 X-SourceIP: 86.101.216.116 Message-ID: <47D274D1.6070102@kovesdan.org> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:13:21 +0100 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jdferrell3@yahoo.com References: <566289.95610.qm@web90614.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <47D05FEC.9090109@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <47D05FEC.9090109@otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated FreeBSD for Linux users article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:31:29 -0000 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 _enable="YES" or the 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, Gábor