From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 2 2:49:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0724D37B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 02:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9884 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2000 10:49:39 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 10:49:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 19232 invoked from network); 2 Nov 2000 10:49:28 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 10:49:28 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <48RBN7D0>; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:48:22 -0000 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Rasputin' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: beginners with bsd Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:42:52 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I agree totally. Just look at the following page - in the early stages, the documentation dictated the quality of the software. This tradition seems, happily, to have been carried over into FreeBSD. http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/manual.html Dan -----Original Message----- From: Rasputin [mailto:rasputin@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org] Sent: 02 November 2000 09:33 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: beginners with bsd On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 01:03:13AM -0600, David Talkington wrote: > In response to others who've answered, I'd like to add that (in my > experience) if you're interested in some flavor of Unix and friends, > FreeBSD presents to a newcomer at least one advantage that I don't > think Linux can match: clear, thorough documentation. I've been running FreeBSD since 4.0-RELEASE , and at first was horrified to realise there was nowhere like linuxdoc.org to learn about it. After asking on the newsgroup for help and being referred to the manpages, I was amazed to find they hold useful information on this platform. Unlike (R**h**) Linux, where 'this manpage is no longer maintained - we just like installing files' seems to be the most common entry. In the past month, I've started to learn libc, relying heavily on the manpages. The documentation team should be proud. -- Rasputin Jack of All Trades :: Master of Nuns To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message