the intro man pages are, upon installation recommend as one of the first man pages to read to familiarise oneself with a freebsd system however, after reading them, we have, at best, familiarised ourself with a freebsd system from the 1990s I don't believe that it's necessary for `intro(8)` to speak of > Network related services like `inetd(8)` and `ftpd(8)` are also described.
See also: <http://markmail.org/message/nlp6ahgbje42expx> > The 2000s called. They want their intro(8) back. – Pau Amma, New Year's Eve, 2021.
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #1) Also known as https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-doc/2021-December/001068.html
Hello, I have some plans to update and revamp intro(9). I will create a separate bug for this when the time comes. Perhaps this one could become a tracking PR? Cheers, Mitchell
(In reply to Mitchell Horne from comment #3) > … Perhaps this one could become a tracking PR? Yeah, let's do that now, before the twenty-second century calls. Mina: feel free to revert the status, keyword(s), etc., if you'd prefer a different approach. Thanks, and thanks.
I started on intro(2) because making it pretty seemed straightforward, I think it's getting pretty good. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1065 I don't know if I should add the internal kernel pseudoerrors mentioned in errno.h? Any recommendations for intro(2)? I'm feeling extremely insecure about realizing another typo while trying to sleep, and then force-pushing, and then github check fails telling me I ostensibly wasted the whole entire projects github compute bandwidth recompiling llvm for typo correction in a 28K man page.
Here's what I've got so far for intro(1). I want to update this page concisely without bloating or mangling it. It's previous state is extremely eloquent and concise, and I'd like to see that preserved. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1136