From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 20:15:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BCC16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gamera.svk.isite.net (mail.isite.net [205.217.158.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4220B43D2F for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@isite.net) Received: from anubis.svk.isite.net (anubis.svk.isite.net [205.217.158.5]) by gamera.svk.isite.net (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3O3FMqa010020 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anubis.svk.isite.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i3O3FM0G011625; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jrhett@localhost)i3O3FM9n011624; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:22 -0700 From: Joe Rhett To: Charles Swiger Message-ID: <20040424031522.GB9858@isite.net> Mail-Followup-To: Charles Swiger , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040423193700.GA5329@isite.net> <5EFD80D4-9567-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5EFD80D4-9567-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Organization: Isite Services, Inc. cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 03:15:23 -0000 On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:47:01PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > I'll make a try at answering the issues you raise, but the best way of > handling missing documentation is to submit PR's which update the > manpages or the Handbook with something better. When I know what something better is, sure... > ...and I could repeat this with a few other Unix systems and not find a > "iwconfig" on them, either. ifconfig ought to be used for configuring > network interfaces, IMO. Frankly, I agree with you 100%. But it isn't intuitive and documenting it wouldn't hurt. > I believe the PPP section of the handbook has a discussion of start_if. Because I'd be looking under PPP for wireless configuration? > >4. Why is xdm still listed as the way to set up X? > > > >Okay, I'm certain that a bunch of people will respond to tell me that > >gnome > >and kde are evil and should be destroyed, but the vast majority of > >people > >are expecting modern graphical interfaces. > > If so, why would they want to use X? > > Fifteen years ago, Sun with NeWS and NeXT/Adobe with Display PostScript > solved problems that still plague X-- things like transparency, or a > unified imaging model that works with printing too, or font support > that doesn't suck. Okay, so keep making my point for me. How do you enable these? ;-) (okay, so I'm just teasing you now) -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek JRhett@Isite.Net Isite Services, Inc.