Re: Localized versions of freebsd.org outdated and linked to by google

Michael Gmelin <grembo@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> What I noticed while getting to localized versions is that some of
> these pages are really outdated and/or broken, even those central to
> the project.

Tangentally related, in the past I got caught out by googling the
FreeBSD manpage for something, and the google hit went to the version
for Linux. This wasn't even for a port, but a specific Linix distro.

On the FreeBSD website, with the FreeBSD logo and the heading "FreeBSD
Manual Pages", I missed the small drop down box saying "Redhat", or whatever.

I can't remember the command/URL off hand, but here are some examples. The
command I looked up gave a result less obvious than these, but you get the
point:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ionice&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=Ubuntu+24.04+noble&arch=default&format=html

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ls&apropos=0&sektion=1&manpath=SunOS+4.1.3&arch=default&format=html

I don't think that the man.freebsd.org site should hold man pages for other
operating systems, or discontinued FreeBSD versions.

At the very least, they should not have a FreeBSD banner, and/or be hosted on
a different URL and/or marked as non-indexable in search engines.

Cheers, Jamie