Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Why BSD Documentation Is Just Better Than Linux" video.

  1. I have lately started adding man pages to some of my projects. I remember a saying from Jerry Pournelle back in Byte Magazine days: “You can never have too many examples”. I may not agree with some of his politics, but I took that saying to heart. Oh, and writing man pages directly in troff isn’t too hard, either.
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  2. The man pages are still the ultimate reference, though. For example, where online will you find an example for doing a keyword search through man pages in a specific section: man -s«n» -k «keyword»
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  3.    I have started writing man pages for some of my programs, directly in troff.
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  4. It is possible because those man pages are part of common packages available across just about all distros. Only man pages for distro-specific commands need to be distro-specific. For example, the man pages for bash, iproute2, coreutils, util-linux etc will be the same across all distros. As for apache, the apachectl command is the same across all distros, and it has a man page.
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  5. Any particular ones you can mention?
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  6. At one time, BSD had the best network stack. Not any more.
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  7. I look at the apt-get(8) man page, and “update” and “upgrade” are right next to each other. It says the first one is to “resynchronize the package index files”, the second one is to “install the newest versions of all packages”. Simple.
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  8. Try a “man://” URL in Konqueror. “info://” also works.
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  9. Open source doesn’t magically appear out of thin air, you know. It needs someone to do the work (hint, hint).
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