FreeBSD Journal announced

[spindritf]

How is it that FreeBSD has such great documentation[1], now this while Linux is stuck with random wikis and blogposts, usually out-of-date?

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/

[vacri]

FreeBSD is a 'distribution' and Linux is a 'kernel', which in the context you're discussing is an important distinction. Pick a same-level entity to compare - Fedora? Ubuntu? Arch? Not saying that the documentation is as good, just that the question is apples vs oranges.

[dijit]

Smaller community, more central management.

Linux is seen as a programming platform a lot more than freeBSD.

man pages work wonderfully though.

[RexRollman]

I think OpenBSD and Arch has really good documentation too.

[justincormack]

Linux distros have to do that sort of documentation as there is no standard. There is only really one freebsd distro. Also the change rate is lower.

[01Michael10]

The actual link for the future magazine's website (with the same info on freebsdnews.net) --> http://www.freebsdjournal.com/

[RexRollman]

"The Journal will be a bi-monthly publication and will be available on the web or as an Android/iPhone/Kindle app."

Why make it an app? Making "app" magazines seems really dumb to me, when you could simply make it available in an open format like PDF or ePub or text.

[orik]

I'm willing to bet it will be available in an open format "on the web".

The additional formats probably exist to serve a wider audience.

It would be nice if I could get it in TeX though.

[unethical_ban]

There's also BSD Now, which is pretty cool. More BSD coverage is always nice!

[tachion]

Also, there is BSD Magazine too: http://bsdmag.org/

[UNIXgod]

It's great to see many resources for keeping up with the unknown giant nowdays!