From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 12 12:13:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B165537B6CD for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:13:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from workstation.etinc.com (port36.netsvr1.cst.vastnet.net [207.252.73.36]) by etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA00812; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:12:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200003122012.PAA00812@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:44:04 -0500 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Joe Abley From: Dennis Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000312193205.W68308@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com> <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:32 PM 3/12/00 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >-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. "slowly" is the key word here. Real products are documented before they are in commercial use. Plus by the time you're done they will be outdated...another common problem. Why are you arguing this point? Is there anyone that believes that Linux and FreeBSD are well documented? Please. The books are out of date before they hit the stores. DB . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message