From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 14 08:23:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA26598 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:23:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA26593 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA22129; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:22:18 -0700 (PDT) To: "Christian" Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newsletter In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:59:59 EST." <253B991DE7@colstate.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:22:18 -0700 Message-ID: <22125.868893738@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Cc'd to doc as the answer is of general interest] > Hi Jordan, > > I've been thinking about perhaps writing an article or two for the FreeBSD > newsletter, and I was wondering if you have a list of things that you would > like to see written about. That way I could look at the list and find one or > two things that I am reasonably knowledgeable about and write on them. OK, great, that's the spirit we like to see! :-) The first issue of the newsletter just went out, in fact, with the first 20,000 copies going to Walnut Creek CDROM's FreeBSD mailing list and to those who registered with http://www.freebsd.org/register.html. Now's a good time to start getting articles together for the next issue, I'd say! :) As far as ideas go, we had an idea list we were knocking around for the first issue and I'd say it's still largely apropos for any future issues, so here it is (this list of ideas comes from Bob Bruce, owner/pres of Walnut Creek CDROM): Ideas for articles in the FreeBSD Newsletter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * An article comparing FreeBSD to other OS's, or unique features A comparison of FreeBSD and Linux A comparison of FreeBSD and Solaris A comparison of FreeBSD and BSDI A comparison of FreeBSD and NetBSD A comparison of FreeBSD and Windows-NT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * An article about kernel internals Each issue should try to have an article the explains some section of the kernel. -- VM system -- Filesytem -- Comparison of FFS vs LFS -- How to write a device driver ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * An article about application programming with some working code -- Programming with POSIX threads -- Programming with sockets -- Programming with mapped files -- How to use GDB to debug your program -- How to use gprof to profile and optimize your program -- Porting a program to FreeBSD. What are the most likely porting problems and how to fix them -- Using Gnu "Configure" to make your programs portable ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * An article answering a common tech support problem -- Installing FreeBSD -- common problems, and how to work around them -- Setting up X Windows -- Coping with media failures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A corporate or individual profile or interview An article about an organization using FreeBSD for an interesting or innovative application. Or an interview of a FreeBSD developer and the projects under development. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * An article about System Administration -- Using FreeBSD as a Webserver -- Using FreeBSD as a Firewall -- Using FreeBSD as a Database server -- How to do reliable backups on FreeBSD -- How to add a new user -- How to set up a nameserver -- How to add a new machine to your network -- How to set up a newsserver -- How to find security problems on your system -- How to set up an ftp server -- How to use mirror -- How to find and fix your systems bottlenecks -- Duties of a postmaster, how to configure sendmail -- How to install and use Netscape -- " " " Gcc -- " " " Postgres -- " " " Emacs -- " " " Apache -- " " " ???? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A cheat sheet or tutorial Each issue could contain a short "cheat sheet" similar to the "quick reference guides" published by SSC. These would be something that would make people keep old issues, and maybe cut out and laminate or tape up on the wall next to their monitor. -- sed/ed/vi/perl regular expressions -- standard emacs key bindings -- vi -- shell programming -- tcsh -- perl regex, file flags and command line options -- Standard C library, C operator precedence -- gdb -- standard Java classes -- HTML tags ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * An article about freeware -- features of the latest gcc -- msql vs. postgres95 -- The latest cool new freeware package -- Making a Rockridge CDROM using mkisofs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A review of a couple really useful websites The FreeBSD Website Other FreeBSD related websites Websites with resources for programmers, and system administrators ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A brief synopsis of a Unix utility or an interesting Shell script -- perl one liners -- shell programming -- regular expressions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Reviews of new books, hardware or commercial software Books: -- The "4.4 BSD Internals" book -- Greg Lehey's thick book -- ??? Hardware: -- New DVD drives that work with FreeBSD -- List of vendors that supply FreeBSD capable hardware -- ???