From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 14 8:29: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ra.upan.org (ra.upan.org [204.107.76.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8AC37B491; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ocsinternet.com (localhost.upan.org [127.0.0.1]) by ra.upan.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1EGTlR74915; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:29:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mikel@ocsinternet.com) Message-ID: <3A8AB27B.A664CD14@ocsinternet.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:29:47 -0500 From: Mikel King Organization: OCS Internet X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Seth Cc: Nik Clayton , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web page suggestion References: <20010213104922.A70178@psychotic.aberrant.org> <20010214081413.A331@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010214092858.A71708@psychotic.aberrant.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Seth, In the interest of making things easier why not create a simple tarball with the kern.flp & mfsroot.flp, fidimage.exe and a it's docs, as well as the fBSD how to and stuff like that for the current version. Call it an express intall kit if you like. Well it's just a thought and really wouldn't take much to throw that into the mix as well. Cheers, mikel Seth wrote: > I think it's great. One thing I'd add in the "Current release" box > is a link to a page I drafted & set to Jordan yesterday. Under > "Announcement/Release Notes/Errata", how about a "Download Now" href? > > I've attached my original draft; there's some redundancy in there since > I had the current version w/ announcement, etc. on the secondary page. > Maybe it makes sense to repeat it; if not, trash the top part. > > Again, please forgive the HTML -- I'm not a web designer. > > Seth. > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:14:13AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Seth wrote: > > > I'm not suggesting that the information isn't there already -- it is. > > > But the release information is completely separate from the downloads, > > > and it makes sense to me to have all that relevant information in > > > one place, highlighted for quick navigation. > > > > Attached are two files that implement a first, quick, cut at this. > > > > The first is a patch to www/en/index.sgml. Apply this and test if you > > have a local copy of the www repository. > > > > The second is the index.html that this generates, for those that don't > > have a repo to hand, and just want to see what it looks like (keep in > > mind that you won't get any of the images). > > > > Comments? > > > > 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 > > > Index: index.sgml > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/index.sgml,v > > retrieving revision 1.102 > > diff -u -r1.102 index.sgml > > --- index.sgml 2001/01/25 22:20:23 1.102 > > +++ index.sgml 2001/02/14 08:11:30 > > @@ -128,8 +128,26 @@ > >   > > > > > > + > > + > > + > > + > > +
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Current Release: 4.2
> > + > + href="&base;/releases/4.2R/announce.html">Announcement > > + · > + href="&base;/handbook/install.html">Installation > > + Guide · > + href="&base;/releases/4.2R/errata.html">Errata
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What is FreeBSD?

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FreeBSD is an advanced BSD UNIX operating system for the > > Intel compatible (x86), DEC Alpha, and PC-98 architectures. > > It is developed and maintained by > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > newguide.htmlName: newguide.html > Type: Hypertext Markup Language (text/html) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message