Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:14:34 -0500 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory... Message-ID: <200003122042.PAA00896@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20000313091940.B18713@patho.gen.nz> References: <200003122012.PAA00812@etinc.com> <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> <200003101840.NAA12885@etinc.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003111306520.14049-100000@bsd1.nyct.net> <200003111841.NAA17534@etinc.com> <20000312083736.A27614@patho.gen.nz> <20000312193205.W68308@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <200003122012.PAA00812@etinc.com>
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At 09:19 AM 3/13/00 +1300, Joe Abley wrote: >On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:44:04AM -0500, Dennis wrote: >> At 07:32 PM 3/12/00 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> >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 outdated...another common problem. > >I have yet to find a "real product" with good documentation. I hate when these discussions get so out of context. The original point regarded source code, and whether it was useful enough to allow end-users to maintain their own systems simply by having it, since many of the caveats and "code tricks" are known only to the authors, or because of the substantial learning curve of fully understanding a hardware device. The discussion about general docs for the OS is a completely different matter. DB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.etinc.com T1/T3 boards for FreeBSD and Linux Multiport T1/T3 Routers Full-Featured Bandwidth Manager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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