Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:00:26 +0100 From: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> To: Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: FreeBSD vs Linux man pages, was: drm-i915kms + x11-intel eats out all of the ram and swap but not with x11-scfb Message-ID: <CAEJNuHwXdXdmyL2sJ=jPDgyuXcoR7VcfUs4MESdnTW8VDL23vg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjncE2hhxOn3jdSMUHppAeJqcm5N7cJP4RytNZpys=z0AA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFYkXj=HQ6NKx=_4fG5vyPokdL5FBpdiKccVChL-w7Q=Ty=w5w@mail.gmail.com> <19d0dbdc-f1ac-22f1-6934-076bb5733ab7@daemonic.se> <CAN6yY1unnOR4WS7G671jVBtGz=7xv75xAh7c9DvUFEAeknLrCw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjm7i=FqGQYGvEvVw9pucfL_z0qKB8y8y3hwmKZyaUzGVQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAEJNuHwL_gogxDWyU1Oa08hqrd6%2BJ1jPSbYKrx_TdOUp=oMpKw@mail.gmail.com> <CAFYkXjncE2hhxOn3jdSMUHppAeJqcm5N7cJP4RytNZpys=z0AA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 15:53, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:22 PM Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > Can you please give us a couple of examples of man pages that are > > outdated on Linux? Is it possible that the version of the software is > > behind FreeBSD, hence the man pages are also behind? (Debian stable > > springs to mind) > > > > Also note that FreeBSD runs different software in the base system from > > the Linux counterparts, even if the name is the same. > > > > All software installed from ports are third party, hence the man pages > > should be consistent between the *BSD's and the Linuxes. > > Hello Ottavio :-) I have stopped using Linux on my desk around 2008 Ok, so no examples, then. > Long story short: yes I still think FreeBSD base is better documented Apples and oranges. There's no such a thing as a Linux base. Everything is a package in Linux. FreeBSD is good in its own right, not because "it's not Linux". -- Ottavio Caruso
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