Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Fri Sep 5 21:36:59 UTC 2008


> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:24:49 +0200
> From: "Kai Otto" <kais.deliverymail at googlemail.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kai Otto <kais.deliverymail at googlemail.com>
> Date: 2008/9/5
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1 Content
> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com>
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> I think someone mentioned it earlier, but I'm not shure.
> IMHO it would _be_ nice if there's a HTML-browser in the standard
> installation (with option to not install it in sysinstall).
> I say HTML and not web because I think about the /usr/share/doc
> .html-documentation. If someone really has no Internet-connection as
> mentioned before he/she isn't able to read the handbook, which IMHO is a
> very important part of FreeBSD. There are great manpages and exaple files,
> but the best explanations are in the handbook.

These days a web browser is almost essential. The question is lynx or
links? I prefer links, but lynx is more popular. I hope you don't
insist on a GUI. Those things are far too big and require an X install.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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