From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 21:18:02 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 E4901106568B for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:18:02 +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 66B348FC1C for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:18:01 +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 m5LLHWPu028054 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:17:38 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5LLHVr2004368; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:17:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m5LLHUQv004367; Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:17:30 +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> <87bq1u8qs7.fsf@kobe.laptop> Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:17:30 +0300 In-Reply-To: <87bq1u8qs7.fsf@kobe.laptop> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:41:12 +0300") Message-ID: <87iqw27aj9.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: m5LLHWPu028054 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.752, 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 21:18:03 -0000 On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:41:12 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. Hmmm, rereading this it may have sounded very different than my original intention and entirely wrong. `Evil' was meant to have a joking-style meaning here. Wojciech is right on the spot when he says that it's annoying as hell to see manpages which merely point to an Info page. Especially when that info pages are in a different package, which isn't installed by default... ``doh!'' :)