Re:What I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant ...
by xorander on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:51PM
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I ran into that same issue with startkde being renamed.
However, that's my fault for not reading the release notes beforehand. I wasn't frustrated with FreeBSD. I was frustrated with myself for not reviewing those release notes. Spending 5-10 minutes checking out those notes would have saved me the hour spent troubleshooting that problem. Now I always read the release notes before running updates/upgrades/etc. As a bonus, it's good for discovery of new/updates features.
IMO, OSS documentation is one of the major areas where there's a large gradient when it comes to quality. When there are projects like FreeBSD and OpenBSD that write good documentation, it's definitely worth it to take advantage of it.
However, that's my fault for not reading the release notes beforehand. I wasn't frustrated with FreeBSD. I was frustrated with myself for not reviewing those release notes. Spending 5-10 minutes checking out those notes would have saved me the hour spent troubleshooting that problem. Now I always read the release notes before running updates/upgrades/etc. As a bonus, it's good for discovery of new/updates features.
IMO, OSS documentation is one of the major areas where there's a large gradient when it comes to quality. When there are projects like FreeBSD and OpenBSD that write good documentation, it's definitely worth it to take advantage of it.