From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 16 16: 0:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [206.79.44.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0B737BE4B; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:59:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA20430; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 03:06:52 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 03:06:52 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Jesse W Scott Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation Project Message-ID: <20000715030651.C20259@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <396A79E9.F3AD3D1@home.com> <20000713011414.B11472@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <396E5429.EF8D39D8@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <396E5429.EF8D39D8@home.com>; from Mathemajikian@home.com on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 06:43:37PM -0500 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jesse, I hope you don't mind -- I've added the doc list back on the distribution so that other people can see where they can help out. On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 06:43:37PM -0500, Jesse W Scott wrote: > Ok so I can pretty much write about anything I feel should be added such > as sound card config or samba networking which seems to have been left > out of the new book. Absolutely. You might want to consider whether what you're thinking of writing would fit best as a section in the Handbook or as a new book. For example, a small section that explains what Samba is, and how to install it and do basic configuration is probably best suited in the Handbook. However, an in-depth discussion of Samba, how the protocol works, how to tune FreeBSD systems running Samba, and so on, would be better off in a new book -- perhaps a "Fileserving with FreeBSD" book? Then we could have placeholders for extra sections, such as NFS and Appletalk for example, that others could fill in. Of course, you could also just take the Linux HOWTO and make it less Linux specific and more appropriate to BSD. > Who do I send it to once I have it completed? The -doc list, and any other people who you think would be able to provide you with useful feedback. For example, if you're writing about soundcards then the folks on the multimedia list would probably appreciate seeing it. > I think I could come up with a couple of chapters. I see all sorts of > things that I needed to know that were not in the new book. Great. Go for it. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message