From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Aug 5 11:18:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE7B37B400 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20E043E6E for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g75IIS910812; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:18:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g75IISA17755; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:18:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g75IIPo17748; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:18:25 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D4EC170.1080509@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:18:24 -0500 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Lippert Cc: sziszi@bsd.hu, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/41106: FreeBSD Handbook lacks "Desktop Applications" chapter. References: <200208051801.LAA28126@eskimo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 Ross Lippert wrote: >>The other such outlet is the FreeBSD Diary. >>(http://www.freebsddiary.org/). It has an astonishing number of articles >> > I didn't know the diary had expanded. I'll have to check it out. Maybe > you are right then and a forum already exists of this sort. What I am envisioning is basically an area where users can go, and read the "good stuff" on a port, maybe even see how many "remarks" or whatever have been written for a port - which means multiple docs per port if need be. However, I think this should be a reference for detailed description of the port, how it was used (or tweaked to use for something) and maybe why it's a neat port. As far as "dvd playing does not work" stuff goes, that's ok as long as it's factual and says something more like "I could not get dvd playback to work with version x, on my system. If you know how to do this, please submit a port-remark." and not jsut port bashing (which doesn't help anyone). That would be up to the port-monger committer to keep an eye out for, and make tweaks as needed. However, I don't think it should be a forum. Forums are like email lists, and they tend to have threads of people discussing things to the minute detail, often with little example. Note this thread. :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message