From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 12 10:32:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp06.wxs.nl (smtp06.wxs.nl [195.121.6.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D35137B827 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 10:32:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.198.157]) by smtp06.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with ESMTP id FRBNHK02.M08; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:32:08 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA10035; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:32:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 19:32:06 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Joe Abley Cc: Dennis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Message-ID: <20000312193205.W68308@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com> <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz>; from jabley@patho.gen.nz on Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 08:37:38AM +1300 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -On [20000312 00:00], Joe Abley (jabley@patho.gen.nz) wrote: >On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 01:36:31PM -0500, Dennis wrote: >> Another point is that Open Source is virtually synonomous with "Totally >> undocumented". > >This is sillier. Exactly, and it also slightly pisses me off... Then I guess I wrote all the manpages and documents for nothing. elf.5 comes to mind for a very handy resource. http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai/newbus-draft.txt comes to mind. And when that is finished the manpages will follow. That's also why I am wasting my time slowly documenting the FreeBSD internals in my spare time. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project You prayed before, who are the prayers for..? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message