From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 17:25:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6862337B4CF for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 17:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from lyra-fddi2.rz.uni-ulm.de (lyra-ether1.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.1.140]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA04024; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:25:07 +0100 (MET) Received: (from s_sbaude@localhost) by lyra-fddi2.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA07474; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:25:07 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 02:25:07 +0100 (MET) From: Siegbert Baude To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beginners with bsd In-Reply-To: <20001103003014.D4698@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hi Giorgos, > What can anyone say about an OS where the manpages are considered something > `extra' that is not part of the system itself? *sigh* That it is often used in embedded systems? ;-) Ciao Siegbert P.S.: Of course FreeBSD man pages are really two classes above Linux' ones. Does FreeBSD really not allow installation without man-pages? Seems to be more a bug than a feature, if you want to install on ancient hardware with small disks (or in embedded systems; is FreebSD used in this way also?). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message