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openbsd is the only project which manpages are not mostly useless. You have even a starting guide there.

FreeBSD's manpages are also quite excellent. I haven't had to refer to NetBSD's but I'd suspect it's also good.

On the Linux side, Debian tends to support manpages better than others (they're required by Policy, though they're not release-critical).

Agreed, this is the very reason I created a small script [1] to install them on non-OpenBSD systems. They are excellent for as references when coding C and to check what is most likely a GNU extension when writing portable shell scripts.

[1]: https://github.com/ninjin/ppod/tree/master/hck/openbsd_manpa...

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