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NetBSD site man pages availability
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I am installing NetBSD 5.0.2 on my laptop machine, closely following NetBSD Guide and man pages; furthermore, I sometimes need to print the man pages from a browser inside other OS, since I don't have the printer configured in NetBSD, yet. The problem is that I get an empty search result for "xorg" in NetBSD "man page" / "apropos" inside NetBSD site. The same happens when trying to search for "xorg" from within FreeBSD "man page" / "apropos" search, using NetBSD in the searching criteria. But when I try the same keyword search for "xorg" using "FreeBSD 8.0 RELEASE and Ports" in the searching criteria, I get the appropriate search results, linking to "xorg" "man page", among others ("xorg.conf",...) . Is it possible to access NetBSD "xorg" man pages, browsing the NetBSD site? If not, is there a turn around? With best regards. |
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In my opinion, the NetBSD community is slowly decaying and has not kept up with the documentation.
xorg actually has two options: monolithic vs modular. Instructions for modular xorg were on an independently maintain wiki which ceased to exist in June of this year. You can still find archived copies on the internet. If you build a desktop environment/window manager it is helpful to use the same xorg version that was used to build the desktop environment/window manager http://web.archive.org/web/200803030...d.se/Main_Page The other issue you will likely encounter is wireless encryption. Unless you need a unique feature of NetBSD I would strongly consider OpenBSD or FreeBSD for your laptop. Last edited by shep; 22nd September 2010 at 04:16 PM. Reason: xorg libary dependency |
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It's great to hear you all. The reasons to use NetBSD are the following: a) Learn Unix :-p NetBSD design goals - to provide a first quality source code and a structured and modular design, values that I learned in faculty and that proved to be of great worth in real world production systems- make it to me the system of choice. b) It's drivers at version 5.0.2 support a AnyData cellular USB modem from the start, something I didn't get in FreeBSD version 8.0. Additionally, it maintains "pppd" - Point to Point Protoco daemon. The script used to control the modem is based on it; "pppd" has been removed from FreeBSD since version 8.0. c) Documentation is clear and simple, with enough detail. I don't feel easy with OpenBSD style of documentation - margin, header and footer comments and graphics, which I found to be distracting. For the sake of method, I am going to keep with NetBSD for now, as long as it doesn't pose a problem for me that I can't solve. The in the next post I 'll give the specifications of the laptop machine I'm using. Best regards for all. See you soon. |
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As I am trying to build a bootable cdrom able to run dar - Disk ARchiver , I found that is no man page for mklivecd at NebBSD site - not even at FreeBSD site.Is there a reason for this? With best regards. |
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If I recall correctly, this worked for my wpa connection
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-...msg006061.html After getting wireless and modular xorg running I had problems with the 5.0.2 Q2 i386 packages for xfce4 at which point I threw in the towel. Last edited by shep; 22nd September 2010 at 11:47 PM. Reason: learned to spell |
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