diff --git a/www/index.pl b/www/index.pl index f56bb5e..e9d8304 100755 --- a/www/index.pl +++ b/www/index.pl @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ sub home { li; a href => 'http://linux.die.net/man/', 'die.net'; txt ' - Seems to be based on an RPM-based Linux distribution.'; end; li; a href => 'http://manpages.org/', 'manpages.org'; txt ' - Lots of mostly-nicely formatted man pages, no clue about source.'; end; li; a href => 'http://www.manpagez.com/', 'manpagez.com'; txt ' - Mac OS X, has some GTK-html and texinfo documentation as well.'; end; + li; a href => 'https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/dev', 'Arch Linux Man Pages'; end; li; a href => 'https://manpages.debian.org/', 'Debian Man Pages'; end; li; a href => 'https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man', 'DragonFlyBSD Man Pages'; end; li; a href => 'http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi', 'FreeBSD.org Man Pages'; end; @@ -162,22 +163,27 @@ sub about { h2 'Goal'; p; lit <<' _'; - The state of online indices of manual pages is a sad one. Existing sites - only offer you a single version of a man page: From one origin, and often - only in a single language. Most don't even tell you where the manual - actually originated from, making it very hard to determine whether the - manual you found actually applies to your situation and even harder to find - a manual from a specific system. Additionally, some sites render the manuals - in an unreadable way, don't correctly handle special formatting - like - tables - or don't correctly display non-ASCII characters. + The state of online indices of manual pages used to be a sad one. Existing + sites used to only offer you a single version of a man page: From one + origin, and often only in a single language. Most didn't even tell you where + the manual actually originated from, making it very hard to determine + whether the manual you found actually applied to your situation and even + harder to find a manual for a specific system. Additionally, some sites + rendered the manuals in an unreadable way, didn't correctly handle special + formatting - like tables - or didn't correctly display non-ASCII characters.

- Manned.org was created in order to improve this situation. This site aims to - index the manual pages from a variaty of systems, both old and new, and - allows you to browse through the various versions of a manual page to find - out how each system behaves. The manuals are stored in the database as - UTF-8, and are passed through groff to render them in - (mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal. + Nowadays there are many good alternatives, but Manned.org was one of the + sites created in order to improve situation. This site aims to index the + manual pages from a variaty of systems, both old and new, and allows you to + browse through the various versions of a manual page to find out how each + system behaves. The manuals are stored in the database as UTF-8, and are + passed through groff to + render them in (mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal. +

+ This website is open source + (MIT licensed) and written in a combination of Perl and Rust. The entire + PostgreSQL database is available for download (see "Database download" + below). _ end;