Ok you all, many thanks to you all!
I am about to get most everthing i need done.
Took me two days to get past the disk tool ! LOL
Man pages drives me nuts some times!
its the formating of them that gets me!
but i will use them with a open mind.
The book list is about the same
as the ones i have found, i was/am
looking for insight on the everyday use's
of OpenBSD, but i think i am ok now!
Just seems kinds wild one of the best OS's
in the world has no printed Manual, ya know ?
Thanks again & you all have a nice day
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Grosse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Looking for general info on OpenBSD
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:33:46AM -0700, Jon R H wrote:
Hello Group.
Need some help understanding 3.9 stable
and what it means from a pkg stand point!
I mean does stable give me more options
then the release ver of 3.9!
Dose OpenBSD have a printed manual
like FreeBSD has "The complete FreeBSD 4th Ed"
and also the "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating
System"
Not sure if OpenBSD has the TrustedBSD mods as well!
Thank you for your time
Jon,
Starting with your documentation questions: AFAIK, OpenBSD's official
documentation is limited to:
* The definitive man pages.
* The published FAQ
* The PF User's Guide
* All of the many miscellaneous web pages, such as errata, stable, etc.
* Architecture specific installation docs
The FAQ and the PF User's guide are available in pdf for printing, as
well
as plain text files. Individual man pages may be formatted for printing
with groff_man(7).
Regarding your question about the -stable tree, -stable contains:
* -release
* security/stability patches that have been published in errata
* security/stability patches that were not important enough to publish
* security/stability patches for ports
For some architectures, -stable packages are made available on the
mirrors.
For more on -stable, see:
http://openbsd.rt.fm/faq/faq5.html#Flavors
http://openbsd.rt.fm/stable.html
