Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:30:45 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 Message-ID: <20071031193045.GD1580@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20071031190830.GJ82954@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20071028074248.GA1511@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710280131220.2400@qbhto.arg> <4724BAD9.7000400@charter.net> <20071028164152.GA7516@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <E1ImBHh-000OiV-Mc@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> <4724BEB3.5080905@charter.net> <20071029132447.GA2658@kobe.laptop> <4727063E.7060107@dial.pipex.com> <20071031143923.GA1580@over-yonder.net> <20071031190830.GJ82954@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:08:31PM +0100 I heard the voice of Bernd Walter, and lo! it spake thus: > > I don't completly agree. > Many people forget that FreeBSD is used on slow embedded systems as > well and I prefer having manpoages there as well. Oh, I don't argue that there are cases where catpages are still useful. But I think they're the exception, not the rule. When you're setting up a tiny system (by whatever the standards of the given day are) or an appliance, you expect the tradeoffs to be rather different than on a normal (by said standards) general-purpose computer. Heck, looking at Soekris, everything above the 4501 class is probably faster than my laptop 8-} -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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