OpenBSD's man pages are a work of art. There's a cohesiveness to the base that "feels" like concrete, like you can build anything on top of it.I can't think of a lot of software projects that claim "correctness" as a goal. Aerospace, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, SQL(?) and some academic exercises?! I remember reading "correctness" as an OpenBSD goal and wondering what the fuck was wrong with the world? Why is a "correct" operating system the outcast, the underdog?
Correctness is the thing with OpenBSD (IMHO). When a system is correct - you don't need the regular gamut of crap in order to figure out what the frak's going on. A little trial and error, investigation, asking the "right" people the "right" questions, self reliance, persistence, and a little picking the lock will get you "in". Exploration, experimentation, explanation - dope it out. That said, if a prospect doesn't want to "pick the lock" & just wants the "key" they don't belong here. Keys cost money, pickin' locks/turnin' wrenches - that's free, been true since wayBack. If you want to ride - RIDE. If you can't drive - stick your thumb out and stfu. Plenty of people will read this, think it's bullshit and get further than I could hope. Others might take it as gospel and hopefully, bounce rather than flounce. But that's just me, ain't my show. All the docs I got for ya! Z On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Jan Lambertz <jd.arb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Before working with OpenBSD, I thought archlinux had good documenation, ( > the wiki ). On OpenBSD I rarely need more things than the man pages, the > ports PKG docs and tailing the logfiles. But I can understand that > sometimes it feels good for short term benefits to be able to use an up and > running config for xy. > I've read the pf.conf manpage very often and still there is space for my > config to improve but I (believe) begin to understand how to configure it > properly and how it should be used. Never had that feeling with online > wikis. There I searched for xy, found an post that seems close to my > problem, copy paste, restart program and maybe it worked or not. Sometimes > this is faster but I definitely learned more with while reading manpages. > For my part I think it's not possible to build something better than the > manpages for its purpose. I do like other sources of information but this > is more about projects. Someone built xy with OpenBSD and wrote an article > about it. Share your stories via undeadly or whatever. Build an index that > lists cool OpenBSD Projects for everyone to find. And the rest is up to the > user and man(1) >
