fedora documentation

[xyyz]

i hope http://www.fedora.redhat.com/docs/ isn't all that there is in fedora. unless, i'm looking in the wrong place, or haven't clicked the right link, has the fedora team actually put anything forward that covers a start to finish install and other features, sorta like the freebsd handbook?

i came across the following:

http://www.brennan.id.au/

which seems like a start, but i'd like a bit more developed documentation. i need to get a webserver up and running, and while i'm not new to *nixes, i dont have much exposure to linux.

 

[StuckMojo]

if the install is anything like redhat's (and it most likely is) it's pretty self explainitory. give it a shot and see how it goes, maybe in vmware first if you're nervous or dual booting.

 

[Nothinman]

if the install is anything like redhat's (and it most likely is) it's pretty self explainitory

The install is simple, it's the docs for doing things afterwards that suck ass. For instance, RedHat used to (still does?) support rc.local and rc.modules in the bootup scripts, but there is no mention of them anywhere. You would think they would ship an empty file with a few comments at the top about what it's for, but no, they just assume you'll figure it out.

 

[drag]

Ya, Fedora's documentation is crap compared to... say.. NetBSD.

To bad. It's a great OS. It even supports a decent amount of packages aviable thru third parties using apt-get/yum. It does a decent job, though, of keeping familar with Redhat 9 setups. So the redhat 9 documentation on Redhat's website is still fairly accurate.

Still no match for Debian, though. Debian has decent documentation, plus much more packages aviable. Trouble is is that it's very dry, but at least it exists.

 

[xyyz]

i don't feel too comfortable with the lack of native documentation, so what i'm gonna try to do is get my supervisor to agree to let me install FreeBSD instead. It's not that I think one is better than the other, it's just I'm much more comfortable with FreeBSD.

Now I'll need to compile a list of pros and cons and comparisons.

I hope he bites.

 

[StuckMojo]

yahoo runs on freebsd

 

[xyyz]

amongst others....

http://news.netcraft.com/archi...s_running_freebsd.html