Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 11:38:16 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Joe Rhett <jrhett@isite.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs. Message-ID: <408A97F8.3070207@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040424031522.GB9858@isite.net> References: <20040423193700.GA5329@isite.net> <5EFD80D4-9567-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040424031522.GB9858@isite.net>
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Joe Rhett wrote: >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... > > http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php </evilgrin> It certainly seems as if you brought a lot of pre-conceived ideas to the desk, which may have been good in some other context, but simply are not the same ideas that *BSD has its roots in. The docs are a complete and highly distilled overview of the entire OS; I don't think that it was intended as a simple "how to" type affair. I'm not saying that you didn't read them, perhaps in near entirety, but from this end it *sounds* as if you expected automagic config wizards and eye-candy help menus from an OS that simply has a different philosophy. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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