From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Dec 18 6:27:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD76237B41B for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 06:27:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.8.57]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20011218142714.BHID10846.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:27:14 +0000 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.5/8.11.5) id fBIERDk37369; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:27:13 GMT (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:27:13 +0000 From: George Reid To: Hiten Pandya Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - A linuxdoc section Message-ID: <20011218142713.A37331@FreeBSD.org> References: <20011218065002.79536.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011218065002.79536.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com>; from hitmaster2k@yahoo.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:50:02PM -0800 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 On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:50:02PM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Some documents on the linuxdoc project can also be > used > for FreeBSD related things example: > > PPP-HowTO > Networking-HowTO > SGML-Emacs HowTO > Practical-PostgreSQL HowTO No. If there's a deficiency in our own documentation, that's what should be addressed instead. Linux documentation may be relevant to FreeBSD some of the time but it will invariably contain instructions that don't apply to FreeBSD and will serve only to confuse users. -- George C A Reid Tel: (08701) 200870 Ext. 26654 FreeBSD Committer/Developer greid@FreeBSD.org Oriel College, Oxford University george.reid@oriel.ox.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message