Updated FreeBSD for Linux users article

[Manolis Kiagias]

John Ferrell wrote:
>
>     John Ferrell wrote:
>     > I have been working on an article entitled "FreeBSD Quickstart
>     for Linux Users", a technical overview of FreeBSD for Linux users.
>     I have had some feedback from this list and from some people on
>     IRC. I was hoping to solicit some more feedback before I submitted
>     it.
>     >
>     >
>     http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance,
>     > John
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>     >
>     This is a nice, well focused writeup :)
>
>     Two things you may wish to consider:
>
>     - In your description of packages and pkg_add you may add a few lines
>     about how you can use PACKAGESITE to retrieve the latest packages
>     from
>     the stable distribution. A lot of people are not aware that by
>     default
>     pkg_add fetches release packages, they believe they are getting
>     updated
>     ones.
>
>     - Since you are discussing the init system and mention
>     /usr/local/etc/rc.d: A quick explanation about the difference between
>     the base system and the ports (possibly with a reference to another
>     document or the handbook, so you would not have to expand this a
>     lot).
>     Also a mention that /etc/rc.d has the startup scripts for services in
>     the base distribution and /usr/local/etc/rc.d for scripts in
>     user-installed programs. Finding out what to write in /etc/rc.conf to
>     enable a service confuses most beginners, a mention of the general
>     rule
>     _enable="YES" or the rcvar to find out the entry
>     would be nice IMHO.
>
>     A quick correction, in the same section, the example about
>     apache22 is
>     wrong, it should read:
>
>     # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 start
>
>     and
>
>     # /etc/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 forcestart
>
>
>     Manolis
>
>
>
> Manolis,
>
> Thank you for your suggestions and for catching those errors.  I just finished up incorporating your suggestions.
>
> http://promethium.rhsmith.umd.edu/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-for-linux-users/article.html
>
> Thanks again,
> John
Well done! This will save a lot of beginners a  lot of frustration.
(I learned the hard way myself ;) )

Thanks,
Manolis