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Added FreeBSD icon + description and future ideas on about page

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<dt>Arch Linux</dt><dd>
The core, extra and community repositories are fetched from a local
Arch mirror. Indexing started around begin June 2012.</dd>
<dt>Ubuntu</dt><dd>
Historical releases were fetched from <a
href="http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>,
supported releases from a local mirror. All components (main, universe,
restricted and multiverse) from the $release, $release-updates and
$release-security repositories are indexed. Backports are not included at
the moment. Indexing started around mid June 2012.</dd>
<dt>Debian</dt><dd>
Historical releases were fetched from <a
href="http://archive.debian.org/debian/">http://archive.debian.org/debian/</a>
@ -170,8 +163,26 @@ sub about {
we're missing a few man pages because some packages were missing from the
repository archives. For the other releases, all components (main, contrib
and non-free) from the $release and $release-updates (where available)
repositories are indexed.
</dd>
repositories are indexed.</dd>
<dt>FreeBSD</dt><dd>
Historical releases were fetched from <a
href="http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/mirror/FreeBSD-Archive/">http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/mirror/FreeBSD-Archive/</a>.
The base installation tarballs are included in the database as packages
prefixed with <i>core-</i>. The package repositories have also been
indexed, except for 2.0.5 - 2.2.7 and 3.0 - 3.3 because those were not
available on the ftp archive. Only the -RELEASE repositories have been
included, which is generally a snapshot of the ports directory around the
time of the release. A few packages are missing because the indexing
script was unable to determine the package name and version for
everything. Additionally, the dates indicated for many packages is a bit
off, and the site doesn't handle this very well yet. :-(</dd>
<dt>Ubuntu</dt><dd>
Historical releases were fetched from <a
href="http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a>,
supported releases from a local mirror. All components (main, universe,
restricted and multiverse) from the $release, $release-updates and
$release-security repositories are indexed. Backports are not included at
the moment. Indexing started around mid June 2012.</dd>
</dl><br />
Only packages for a single architecture (i386 or i686) are scanned. To my
knowledge, packages that come with different manuals for different
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future. In the short term, this means all Fedora and OpenSUSE releases will
get indexed. In the long term, many others may be added as well.
<br /><br />
It would also be great to index a few non-Linux systems such as *BSD,
Solaris/Illumos and Mac OS X. Unfortunately, those don't always follow a
binary package based approach, or are otherwise less easy to properly index.
The FreeBSD ports look like a good future target, however.
It would also be great to index a few more non-Linux systems such as other
BSDs, Solaris/Illumos and Mac OS X. Unfortunately, those don't always follow
a binary package based approach, or are otherwise less easy to properly
index.
<br /><br />
In general, systems that follow an entirely source-based distribution
approach can't be indexed without compiling everything. Since that is both
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_
end;
h2 'Future plans';
p; lit <<' _';
This site isn't nearly as awesome yet as it could be. Here's some ideas that
would be nice to have in the future:
<ul>
<li>Improved, more intelligent, search,</li>
<li><a href="/apropos.1">apropos(1)</a> emulation(?),</li>
<li>Diffs between various versions of a man page,</li>
<li>Anchor links within man pages, for easier linking to a section or paragraph,</li>
<li>Table of Contents for each man page,</li>
<li>Alternative formats (Text, PDF, more semantic HTML, etc),</li>
<li>A command-line client, like <a href="/man.1">man(1)</a> with manned.org as database backend.</li>
</ul>
_
end;
h2 'Copyright';
p; lit <<' _';
All manual pages are copyrighted by their respective authors. The manuals