Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 08:51:20 +0100 (MET) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General thoughts and questions on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911230850130.26043-100000@sun33> In-Reply-To: <86pux2nd16.fsf@localhost.hell.gr>
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On 23 Nov 1999, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> writes: > > > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > Thank you Greg. > > > On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 18:28:43 -0500, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > A 'hacker' friend of mine... > [snip] > > > > > The docs seem more sparse for BSD --no NAG, so LPG, no SAG-- but > > > maybe I just never poked around enough. > > > > Well, I suppose we don't have them. At any rate, I don't know what > > these TLAs mean. But then, it's not Linux. > > Just the proper time for an old Linux convert to clarify things a bit. > > NAG is the ``network administrator's guide'' and the information it > contains can be applied, apart from linux that is, to several other unix > and unix-like systems. > > LPG is the ``linux programmer's guide,'' with documentation on > application program building, which with the usual minor exception of a > very linux-specific thing, applies to *BSD like a charm too. > > SAG is the ``system administrator's guide.'' A document that described > common tasks a sys-admin will have to go through. Useful stuff, and > lots of it are handy for *BSD as well. > > Now, the funny part is that *BSD actually comes with a similar, probably > not as up to date, but altogether extremely useful set of similar texts > too. They are located in /usr/share/doc/{smm,psd,usd} and I have to > admit I had copied all of them on every Linux installation I ever made, > before I got the real thing ;) Well the same question as posed by I guess Mr Lehey: What do this 3-letter abbreviation stand for? Best Regards, Ariel > Since they are right there, waiting to be read, but they somehow failed > to be noticed by our friend, one can not help wondering if a proper > mention in the handbook or the faq would be any useful. > > Regards. > > -- > Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] > > > 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
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