On Thu, 18 May 2006 10:53:49 -0600 (MDT), "Diana Eichert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > One of the things I emphasize with people when I'm explaining to them why > I recommend OpenBSD is the quality of the man pages. After reading yet > another bunch of submits from Jason McIntyre I just wanted to give him > and > all the other developers kudos for their work.
Ditto. :-) Besides the fine commitment to security, the man pages are *the* reason I like OpenBSD, so much. I don't like to criticize, but the man pages in Linux (all the distros I've dealt with, anyway) are beyond horrible. Most of them give you virtually no real information. It's as if you are expected to already know how everything works and the man pages are just there to act as a reminder. I really don't understand how Linux people tolerate the situation. And as good as Solaris and Alpha UNIX's man pages are they are still no comparison to OpenBSD's. Thank you, thank you, thank you, all OpenBSD developers. BTW, the state of Linux man pages is the reason you get so many newbies from Linux who are genuinely perplexed when people tell them to read the man pages. They deserve our pity not our scorn. -- Eric Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
