From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 10 10:40:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C5037B403; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from intruder.bmah.org ([24.176.204.87]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010710174012.ZWMT9548.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@intruder.bmah.org>; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:40:12 -0700 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f6AHeAO26213; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200107101740.f6AHeAO26213@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/09/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the Handbook In-Reply-To: <20010710113247.A2B863E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> References: <20010710113247.A2B863E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Comments: In-reply-to Dima Dorfman message dated "Tue, 10 Jul 2001 04:32:47 -0700." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1054791284P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:40:10 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_1054791284P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > 8. Removing some content to other documents. [snip] > > PC Hardware Compatability -> Book in its own right (?) > > This should probably be in the relnotes. Just to echo this. There is a "Hardware Compatability" list (both PC and Alpha) in the release documentation. It is *much* more up to date and detailed than what's in the Handbook; more importantly, it's tied pretty closely to the release notes. A pointer to the release documentation (from the handbook), with maybe some generic statements about what types of hardware are supported, should suffice IMHO. The list itself is a bit long to go in the Handbook. This brings up another point...that there's considerable overlap between some sections of the handbook and some files in the release documentation. In particular, see the "Installing FreeBSD" section of the Handbook and INSTALL.TXT or its RELNOTESng equivalent. It looks to me like these two sections had a common ancestor, but diverged considerably. I've wanted to audit these for consistency, but I'm not sure when I'll get time to do this. Bruce. --==_Exmh_1054791284P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7Sz362MoxcVugUsMRAokhAJ4hzYiBwRDOIsrcAYAFZ/sFkh/WNACgu+86 csVbuBIYr/LCXho/iBSEG6E= =h1Ho -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1054791284P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message