FreeBSD for Linux Users article

[John Ferrell]

> Hi John !

>> Is this what the documentation project had in mind?  I welcome any comments,
>> suggestions, changes, etc.

>When you write:
>"It is recommended that the root's default shell remain unchanged, though."

>Maybe it would be nice to have a reference to the handbook.
>Which I have perused, but couldn't find anything relevant. There is actually no
>such recommendation in the HB :-(
>The one I found was this:
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html#TOOR-ACCOUNT

>pertaining to the "toor" account, which gives a nice explanation.
>(slightly OT: we might want to add such an explanation in the HB ?)

>I find the article pretty clear anyway :-)

>Maybe we should also mention the fact that there is no longer a "/proc" on
>procfs: FreeBSD uses "sysctl" instead ? (I know some GNU/Linux users who use
>/proc in their shells to grab info on the system, they might like to know they
>have to proceed differently).

>What do you (all) think ?

>cheers,
>gregory


Gregory,

Thank you for you comments and suggestions.  I have incorporated them into the article.

http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html

What else might be missing or need to be changed?

Thanks,
John