From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 1 17:34:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3986AAB5 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:34:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ddwood@highdensity.org) Received: from mail-pb0-f47.google.com (mail-pb0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6545B24 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f47.google.com with SMTP id rp2so1869725pbb.34 for ; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:34:02 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent:x-gm-message-state; bh=V3B/18lJZw2qcYa+vfTH9mJR2zQVlJ1JPOt4Gi4O858=; b=HXNYu0KbjEeMkkQK1YbqqYgmclQDdnFuVWpDrUwmf3HJKJjX5uROiE5px/qydBHjVj QzZUv15fAiaXyD5nYL/yNcXPmyBAbQxjDfDn/XCA3tuIivt+jpnouQhFMvQBRVdpYDLr 0gsQQAXXdE91x7z3ZBnmMvCsz7yAwh+sMgkyGuhpe0qrzRsae+LsTcZLzYfr2kM7pFdy E4WHXSIvUVdQsMgY8u2hMTz7zt2hFUzoBELd938TjW3qYKaIbsfPg1CLYEaEmk3o1wbf bb6QJLr/PG8OKPm2gkDBXSFxyuTmqVmlPo3uJLcED9UZSP4V6jGntL0XgJ5WhxSpLq/5 XprQ== X-Received: by 10.68.117.104 with SMTP id kd8mr15918726pbb.1.1362159242345; Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:34:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from yavin (ip68-231-151-161.tc.ph.cox.net. [68.231.151.161]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d8sm13736704pax.23.2013.03.01.09.34.00 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:34:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:33:57 -0700 From: Derek Wood To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD For Linux Users (update) Message-ID: <20130301173357.GA3267@yavin> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <1UB9VE-0002eY-EQ@internal.tormail.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1UB9VE-0002eY-EQ@internal.tormail.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlpZQS8Htncy2Qc8wlgWtffd13S3kk04oQnphTby7t12gadLECw8rpmarSZquLdhlcbE6kW X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:34:09 -0000 On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50:52PM -0000, sib@tormail.org wrote: > My question to you: Would anyone here be interested in updating it (or > just helping a bit) to be more accurate with the modern FreeBSD world, and > has a place to host it that we can link to? I think this would really be a > nice improvement and help us teach more new users about how we do things. > > Also, a few official pages on freebsd.org are growing a bit old > (references to CVS, etc.) and might need similar treatment: > > FreeBSD: An Open Source Alternative to Linux > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-comparison/article.html > FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-users/index.html > Comparing BSD and Linux > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html > > I'm going to begin going through all of these pages in the next few days > and see what needs to be updated and how much work this will be, but I > would greatly appreciate any help from the community! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" My suggestion would be to host it on wiki.freebsd.org and then eventually convert it into an article or chapter of the handbook. If you don't have an account for the wiki you can drop by #bsddocs or #bsdports on efnet and someone will get you sorted. As for the article, I think it would be most productive to examine which of those you linked can be replaced with the document you intend to write, then make sure that the new document includes the information of the outgoing documents. We don't really need >3 "Linux vs FreeBSD" articles, just one really good one.