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Natty OpenBSD Posters

Posted by Nik on from the NP:-International-Velvet dept.

Fans of the OpenBSD artwork (like myself) can now get two posters with the infamous blowfish. The first is armed to the gills, while the second includes the OpenSSHeriff. Get thee to the order page and spend some money.

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  1. Re:I think... by rhdwdg · · Score: 2
    There's one area where you do succeed, though Theo, and even I will admit this: manpages. OpenBSD has the best manpages of any *BSD or Linux system out there. They're often shorter, but the quality is so much more. Why don't you drop OpenBSD and just write manpages for FreeBSD? Hey, it's better than being a gopher!

    Aw, you ruined a perfectly good flame with this sincere crap ... long live the art of flaming! Well, since you brought it up, I'll focus on this point. OpenBSD believes in the Unix tradition of The Manual, formatted by nroff for ASCII and troff for typesetting. If you print out everything in /usr/man you have the complete manual. OpenBSD (I will call it by the name of the whole project, although it does have the strongest leader of all the mainstream free OSs) calls the LDP (with man pages as just one more publication) and the FreeBSD Handbooks fragmentation of documentation.

    What do you think? The LDP certainly gets more material written, while OpenBSD truly lives up to its goal of One Manual. FreeBSD seems happy with a middle road -- a few centrally edited handbooks. I don't have an opinion, yet, and if anyone will actually see this article (and this comment) I think it would be an interesting discussion.

    In the meantime, keep up the flame quality! That was quite enjoyable, even though I don't agree with you. (Maybe a little.)

    P.S. Odd that the slashdot fortune I saw while reading this was:

    "Your stupidity, Allen, is simply not up to par." -- Dave Mack (mack@inco.UUCP) "Yours is." -- Allen Gwinn (allen@sulaco.sigma.com), in alt.flame
  2. Re:I think... by Bishop · · Score: 2

    The man pages are very well written. Kudos to the developers for writeing them. My only complain is finding which man page I should be reading. I have found that man -k does not always return the page I want. The man pages need a proper index.