From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 01:59:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA18355 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 May 1995 01:59:26 -0700 Received: from saul3.u.washington.edu (buckwild@saul3.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA18346 for ; Fri, 12 May 1995 01:59:24 -0700 Received: by saul3.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA29663; Fri, 12 May 95 01:58:54 -0700 X-Sender: buckwild@saul3.u.washington.edu Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 01:58:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Steven Tamola To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: a couple questions... Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk dear all, well, i just installed 2.0-snap-950412 even though i knew i should've waited for 2.05 to come out, and i must say that the system has definitely come a long, long way! i switched about a year ago from freebsd-1.1 to netbsd just to see what the other hoopla was all about and then just last week i finally got a 486 box to replace my old 386 (while everyone else is upgrading from 486 to 586) and wanted to try the latest release of freebsd. so much has changed that it took me a while to see how everything worked! the new install is pretty dope and it was very easy for me to set it up...no problems at all (except for a couple small bugs in the distribution installation part that were no big deal). i am very impressed! just a few questions now: 1. how reliable is ibcs2 binary compatibility? will i be able to buy anything through mail order and run it on my system? 2. when is linux emulation coming? netbsd has it now and is something i enjoyed playing with. 3. i noticed a lot of the man pages are very non-standard in their formatting (the bsd man pages were all the same but a bunch of others like the gnu pages and some handmade ones were formatted all wrong). is there a group that deals with documentation? since i'm not the most adept programmer is there a way i can contribute by fixing the documentation up? (i also noticed a bunch of incorrect references to commands on some pages.) sincerely, -m