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Date:      Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:34:46 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
Subject:   Re: I like Ubuntu
Message-ID:  <46212CD6.9020702@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070414192420.GH302@demeter.hydra>
References:  <1176551927.6799.9.camel@FreeBSD.localhost> <462122E2.20207@u.washington.edu> <20070414192420.GH302@demeter.hydra>

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Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:52:18AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>   
>> Also, it's Linux-based so documentation in terms of manpages are most 
>> likely non-existent, like with Gentoo Linux.
>>     
>
> That's by no means universal among Linux distributions.  Debian actually
> provides better manpage coverage than FreeBSD, for instance.
But some of the manpages are out of date, like for the coreutils (I 
think mv/cp was one of them?). I like the comment in there about 
Stallman liking infopages but Debian-ites having to create a manpage :). 
I personally hate infopages, but that's me.

-Garrett



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