Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 02:11:09 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r40985 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects Message-ID: <20130224011108.GB10994@saturn> In-Reply-To: <201302161636.r1GGaMOI055230@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201302161636.r1GGaMOI055230@svn.freebsd.org>
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On 2013-02-16 16:36, Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Author: eadler > Date: Sat Feb 16 16:36:22 2013 > New Revision: 40985 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40985 > > Log: > Remove ancient things. Slightly belated comments. I just caught up with doc-commit email though, so please bear with me. > Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml > ============================================================================== > --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml Sat Feb 16 16:36:19 2013 (r40984) > +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml Sat Feb 16 16:36:22 2013 (r40985) > @@ -78,13 +78,6 @@ > <a href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">ppp page</a> > for links to the other valuable information and the latest updates.</p></li> > > - <li><p><a name="cfbsd" href="http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/">The > - Complete &os;</a> by Greg Lehey, published by O'Reilly. > - This book assumes minimal UNIX experience and takes the > - beginner step by step through each stage from installation to > - everything you need to know to set up and run a &os; system. You > - also get to understand what you are doing and why.</p></li> This is still a book that is available online and may serve a useful purpose for people who are entirely new to BSD. Maybe we should have a section for 'historical documentation' and move this book there? > - <li><p>The main newsgroup for &os; is <a > - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a>. > - You might want to keep an eye on <a > - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a> > - as well.</p></li> I still use comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and it is moderately active. It doesn't have the traffic that it used to have a decade ago, but I think removing it altogether is a bit bad. For example here's what I saw this morning when I opened the group: ,----------------------------------------------------------------------- | . 2013-02-22 Andrew Falanga ( 0) Re: Trouble making an EFI System Partition on my USB thumb drive | . 2013-02-23 Torfinn Ingolfsen ( 11) ╰─▶ Re: Trouble making an EFI System Partition on my USB thumb drive | . 2013-02-22 Tim Daneliuk ( 50) [ANN]: ’tsshbatch’, Batch ssh Tool, Version 1.137 Released `------------------------------------------------------------------------ So there are still a few people who find the newsgroups useful. On the other hand maybe new users are now completely disconnected from Usenet and newsgroups and this is just me being an old-fart. I'm not entirely sure if I want to keep *all* references to Usenet groups. But seeing 'comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc' go made me a bit sad.
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