Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 11:59:47 -0700 (PDT) From: John Ferrell <jdferrell3@yahoo.com> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updated FreeBSD for Linux users article Message-ID: <687945.66586.qm@web90604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <47D05FEC.9090109@otenet.gr>
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John Ferrell wrote: > I have been working on an article entitled "FreeBSD Quickstart for Linux Users", a technical overview of FreeBSD for Linux users. I have had some feedback from this list and from some people on IRC. I was hoping to solicit some more feedback before I submitted it. > > http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html > > Thanks in advance, > John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > This is a nice, well focused writeup :) Two things you may wish to consider: - In your description of packages and pkg_add you may add a few lines about how you can use PACKAGESITE to retrieve the latest packages from the stable distribution. A lot of people are not aware that by default pkg_add fetches release packages, they believe they are getting updated ones. - Since you are discussing the init system and mention /usr/local/etc/rc.d: A quick explanation about the difference between the base system and the ports (possibly with a reference to another document or the handbook, so you would not have to expand this a lot). Also a mention that /etc/rc.d has the startup scripts for services in the base distribution and /usr/local/etc/rc.d for scripts in user-installed programs. Finding out what to write in /etc/rc.conf to enable a service confuses most beginners, a mention of the general rule _enable="YES" or the rcvar to find out the entry would be nice IMHO. A quick correction, in the same section, the example about apache22 is wrong, it should read: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start and # /etc/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 forcestart Manolis Manolis, Thank you for your suggestions and for catching those errors. I just finished up incorporating your suggestions. http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html Thanks again, John
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