From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 20:41:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C86106567A for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:41:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4C88FC19 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:41:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl112-229.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.231.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-4) with ESMTP id m5LKfHmx024971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:41:26 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5LKfHDL004146; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:41:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m5LKfDgq004145; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:41:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Wojciech Puchar References: <457AE580-C0BB-4AB8-856C-188AC3E40E70@identry.com> <20080621105808.7b81d500@Lucifer> <64c038660806211127n3e34b60dxc852efbb4bebe630@mail.gmail.com> <20080621205535.X61516@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:41:12 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20080621205535.X61516@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> (Wojciech Puchar's message of "Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:56:23 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: <87bq1u8qs7.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m5LKfHmx024971 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.75, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.65, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: John Almberg , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Modulok Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD 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: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:41:49 -0000 On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:56:23 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Documentation. FreeBSD is well documented. [...] > > most common linux manual page: > > "This page is outdated and incomplete. look at info or even better - > on www.something.org" That's evil(TM), but it's also true for many Linux manpages. Having said that, the work of the folks at http://www.linuxmanpages.com/ is a noble and valiant effort to do something about this problem. The advantage of FreeBSD in this case is that we have a well-integrated "base system", and we don't have to chase around multitudes of seemingly semi-random people to write the manpages in the style *we* prefer. The very nature of the well integrated base system makes it far easier to convince people that "this the manpage style you have to use, or we can not use your text" :-)