From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 9 18:59:48 2008 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9EB1065670 for <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdferrell3@yahoo.com) Received: from web90604.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web90604.mail.mud.yahoo.com [216.252.100.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 425C48FC1D for <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org>; Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:59:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdferrell3@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 66832 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Mar 2008 18:59:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=y7RZvvu+oxqmAIRBURJ+KimNBQ/QJWF2pI+dgkBZITsA16dzTFyqVoB46kjgWfA0OhQEiPTLmp8/755jPElDjqprsbil4l9J2jrEOzcvdtY236CCsRnsbrtBAkw+JCxO/ZsqrJJDot+zqtRHhsQr63vlmPQb4EuyFTYFF1PgVtI=; X-YMail-OSG: 9Um.78oVM1nYsNsLrkoWRXIS02rtsBZx3VujWMASDdItH9oIUPoDMv3Vp7UEMLOg3IjmtTxxPqIdIf47CDHDGR8BoqDyOXXPfPgPieEWJaqsjmD3UWIVFHXqvq9r.w-- Received: from [69.243.127.25] by web90604.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:59:47 PDT Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:59:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Ferrell <jdferrell3@yahoo.com> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <47D05FEC.9090109@otenet.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <687945.66586.qm@web90604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated FreeBSD for Linux users article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project <freebsd-doc.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc>, <mailto:freebsd-doc-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-doc-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc>, <mailto:freebsd-doc-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:59:48 -0000 John Ferrell wrote: > I have been working on an article entitled "FreeBSD Quickstart for Linux Users", a technical overview of FreeBSD for Linux users. I have had some feedback from this list and from some people on IRC. I was hoping to solicit some more feedback before I submitted it. > > http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html > > Thanks in advance, > John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > This is a nice, well focused writeup :) Two things you may wish to consider: - In your description of packages and pkg_add you may add a few lines about how you can use PACKAGESITE to retrieve the latest packages from the stable distribution. A lot of people are not aware that by default pkg_add fetches release packages, they believe they are getting updated ones. - Since you are discussing the init system and mention /usr/local/etc/rc.d: A quick explanation about the difference between the base system and the ports (possibly with a reference to another document or the handbook, so you would not have to expand this a lot). Also a mention that /etc/rc.d has the startup scripts for services in the base distribution and /usr/local/etc/rc.d for scripts in user-installed programs. Finding out what to write in /etc/rc.conf to enable a service confuses most beginners, a mention of the general rule _enable="YES" or the rcvar to find out the entry would be nice IMHO. A quick correction, in the same section, the example about apache22 is wrong, it should read: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start and # /etc/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 forcestart Manolis Manolis, Thank you for your suggestions and for catching those errors. I just finished up incorporating your suggestions. http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html Thanks again, John