Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:22 -0700 From: Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs. Message-ID: <20040424031522.GB9858@isite.net> In-Reply-To: <5EFD80D4-9567-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <20040423193700.GA5329@isite.net> <5EFD80D4-9567-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:47:01PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > I'll make a try at answering the issues you raise, but the best way of > handling missing documentation is to submit PR's which update the > manpages or the Handbook with something better. When I know what something better is, sure... > ...and I could repeat this with a few other Unix systems and not find a > "iwconfig" on them, either. ifconfig ought to be used for configuring > network interfaces, IMO. Frankly, I agree with you 100%. But it isn't intuitive and documenting it wouldn't hurt. > I believe the PPP section of the handbook has a discussion of start_if. Because I'd be looking under PPP for wireless configuration? <giggle> > >4. Why is xdm still listed as the way to set up X? > > > >Okay, I'm certain that a bunch of people will respond to tell me that > >gnome > >and kde are evil and should be destroyed, but the vast majority of > >people > >are expecting modern graphical interfaces. > > If so, why would they want to use X? > > Fifteen years ago, Sun with NeWS and NeXT/Adobe with Display PostScript > solved problems that still plague X-- things like transparency, or a > unified imaging model that works with printing too, or font support > that doesn't suck. Okay, so keep making my point for me. How do you enable these? ;-) (okay, so I'm just teasing you now) -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek JRhett@Isite.Net Isite Services, Inc.
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