From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 16:24:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3B016A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 16:24:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EE443D82 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 16:23:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryan.cavicchioni@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so297384wri for ; Wed, 04 May 2005 09:23:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=obUfo3zxCg4dGa7q9Jvu+myw5W5exiFXKToB3CDvi3ZC7VAisTHAZH/GGY+SlO7vFfuxUfTLS9KJZOuGPHqeW51MzJWA3c3W77/fdJcQ9rqV9mxz9Z3bfMlOQeVRLxRimM3XzwUVtxRKK36y+zDvKE0TRtoiVLN6/RenEWPwbe0= Received: by 10.54.57.8 with SMTP id f8mr251603wra; Wed, 04 May 2005 09:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.83? ([209.242.24.199]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 34sm428568wra.2005.05.04.09.23.12; Wed, 04 May 2005 09:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4278F839.2010703@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:28:41 -0500 From: "Ryan J. Cavicchioni" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions References: <781e2bc0050503170031a960fd@mail.gmail.com> <20050504001546.GA64854@xor.obsecurity.org> <781e2bc005050317295898d640@mail.gmail.com> <200505040912090592.03B6BBC1@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <200505040912090592.03B6BBC1@sentry.24cl.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:24:54 -0000 MikeM wrote: > On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote: > > |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). |Some parts are out > of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that |could really help. > For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily |include a > 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into > |reading that one line where it says you have to recompile your > kernel |with IPFIREWALL support. | |Things like that bring noise to > this mailing list. Idon't know about |you but I'd rather just add > my new found info to the site rather find |a PR addy, submit it and > wait for it to be added. We have software |that does this now. Lets > use it! :) ============= > > When I found a spot in the Handbook that was a bit sparce, I send > in an email describing what I was looking for, what I found, and > what i expected to find. The Handbook was updated within a few > days, and the update was much better than what I could have > written. > > > Maybe a wiki would supplement the Handbook, rather than replace it. > Now I think that would be a better idea. It would be cool to have a very active handbook wiki but just like forums, starting and running a successful one is not easy work. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Ryan Cavicchioni GPG ID: C271BCA8 GPG Public Key: http://confabulator.net/gpg/ryan.asc GPG Fingerprint: 83E4 2495 6194 0F66 ED85 22B4 4CC0 DA01 C271 BCA8