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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:15:34 UTC
The branch main has been updated by wosch:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=39e94018744b8f0e6c8375080569ab35c43500b7
commit 39e94018744b8f0e6c8375080569ab35c43500b7
Author: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2026-09-17 11:13:14 +0000
Commit: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-09-17 11:13:14 +0000
man.cgi: add an introduction section for the help page
---
website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi b/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi
index b00fef5043..d0e5079937 100755
--- a/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi
+++ b/website/content/en/cgi/man.cgi
@@ -2522,6 +2522,26 @@ sub faq {
}
return qq{\
+<p>
+<a href="https://man.freebsd.org/">man.FreeBSD.org</a>
+is the largest and oldest manual page archive on the internet.</p>
+
+<p>
+Online continuously since 1996, it hosts manual pages from FreeBSD
+since its first release, version 1.0, and dozens of other operating
+systems and Unix variants - spanning decades of computing history,
+from 1970s Unix Seventh Edition and 2.11 BSD through every FreeBSD
+release, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and current releases of Debian, Ubuntu,
+Rocky Linux and macOS.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Whether you're looking up a command on the system in front of you,
+comparing how a syscall's behavior changed across FreeBSD releases, or
+researching how Unix documentation evolved since the 1970s, this
+archive gives you direct, permanent links to the manual pages
+themselves.
+</p>
<h2>Shortcuts for FreeBSD manual pages</h2>