From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 14:31:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D7237B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:31:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a221.otenet.gr [212.205.215.221]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eA2MTSo03695; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:29:28 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA2MUE605713; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:30:14 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 00:30:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Rasputin Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginners with bsd Message-ID: <20001103003014.D4698@hades.hell.gr> References: <000a01c043c3$942af1e0$1d24fc3e@knapp> <20001102093329.B14637@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20001102093329.B14637@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:33:29AM +0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 09:33:29AM +0000, Rasputin wrote: > > I've been running FreeBSD since 4.0-RELEASE , and at first was horrified > to realise there was nowhere like linuxdoc.org to learn about it. > > After asking on the newsgroup for help and being referred to the manpages, > I was amazed to find they hold useful information on this platform. This is one of the most important reasons why I chose to stick with FreeBSD. That, and the cvs-all messages that showed both code and documentation being updated at the same time and staying most of the time in sync (of course, I'm talking about -STABLE here). > Unlike (R**h**) Linux, where > > 'this manpage is no longer maintained - we just like installing files' > > seems to be the most common entry. What can anyone say about an OS where the manpages are considered something `extra' that is not part of the system itself? *sigh* -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message