From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 7:33:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc89225.stofanet.dk (pc89225.stofanet.dk [212.10.22.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F8DE37B718 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 07:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from morten@hotpost.dk) Received: (qmail 1025 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Mar 2001 15:33:36 -0000 From: morten@hotpost.dk Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:33:36 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Rakhesh Sasidharan Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs OpenBSD Message-ID: <20010324163336.B415@hotpost.dk> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Rakhesh Sasidharan References: <20010324114049.A10220@hotpost.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rakhesh@cse.iitd.ernet.in on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:29:48PM +0530 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The cacophony of voices in my head Inform me that Rakhesh Sasidharan said: > > Hi, > > Actually, this is a very subjective question. I personally use both > OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and both have its own vagaries. So do I. > > > Could you explain in what ways you think they're better than the > > > FreeBSD manpages? > > > > Yes. I seem to find better references through 'man-k' in OpenBSD than > > FreeBSD, and that's Good. > > Acatually, I think thats coz of the differences in hte way this command > works in FreeBSD and OpenBSD. FreeBSD also checks for man pages in your > $PATH (unless u specifically use $MANPATH), and that is different from > OpenBSD. That I didn't know. > > FreeBSD does have a very good build system, and a huge ports collection, > > a definite bonus for a (primarily) workstation user like me, and it has > > a large userbase, more people to ask questons. :-) > > Yes, this is what I was referring to above. > > OpenBSD mailing lists are good, but the guys are tough. They know their > stuff, but they could get rude pretty fast. FreeBSD I have never had to > ask much questions on the list, and so I don't know ... (as an aside, > NetBSD mailing list has some real nice people). _Very_ good observation about the mailinglists. :-) Hi from Me -- lynx -source http://home1.stofanet.dk/liebach/pgpkey.html | gpg --import - UNIX, reach out and grep someone! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message