The very beginning and the Huge Thanks for Docs.

[lbvf50]

Hi Guys!

Better to say "Thank you!" than just stay to shy, right? Yep. I think so too.

Long story short: I am delighted in BSD clarity and first I been wondering around NetBSD and OpenBSD docs. One day I came to FreeBSD and I am overwhelmed by a super quality of the documentation's books. Reading a lot: Jon Bodner, Adam Woodbeck, William Kennedy in Go, Craig Hunt in TCP/IP, Andrew Tanenbaum in OS, Brian Ward in Linux, Lucas in BSD series I have some experience to evaluate the quality of books.

And now I am reading FreeBSD Developers HandBook Chapter 7 - Sockets. And it is amazing, and the entire structure of all the Documentation is amazing. Very clear structured and comprehensible.

BSD world is not very popular, and may be some folks a little bit frustrated about that. But the documentation the structure is so well designed that one who find it would not leave.

Thank you guys!

Merry Christmas!

P.S. A little bit messy, but not AI and write immediately.

 

[tembun]

lbvf50 Hi and welcome to FreeBSD Forums!

I found exactly the same when I came to FreeBSD. After experience with couple of other OSes, not only the FreeBSD documentation (and the community!), but the entire system feels incredibly pleasant, it just feels like $HOME

Enjoy FreeBSD!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

 

[skhal]

FreeBSD man pages are extremely helpful. They are well thought through, with just enough information to understand the topic, examples on how to use ABC, and references to dive into the subject as needed.

 

[tingo]

BSD world is not very popular, and may be some folks a little bit frustrated about that.

Only people who think that "popular" is in any way important cares about that.
Once you have learned about how to use FreeBSD in a way that is useful for you, it works for you - popularity isn't part of the equation.

 

[scottro]

I sort of disagree with that. I think that when a system becomes popular, hardware and software vendors become more willing to put in extra work to support it. My memory may be off, but it seems to me that Ubuntu came out, began becoming somewhat popular and was, of course, easy to use, and that seems to brought on both hardware and software vendors adding more support for Linux, which often, indirectly, led to better FreeBSD support too.
Even though, in the US at least, I'd guess RH is far more common in the workplace, Ubuntu and its derivatives are more common for the user who wants to try out Linux.