From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 30 07:12:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA27312 for doc-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA27221 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 07:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA20623; Tue, 30 Jan 96 09:11:11 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA00890; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:11:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:11:10 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9601301511.AA00890@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: lehey.pad@sni.de Cc: doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601240930.KAA27771@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> (message from Greg Lehey on Wed, 24 Jan 96 10:26:34 MET) Subject: Re: What printed documentation do we need? Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey writes: Greg> My thoughts are that we should print completely different Greg> manuals describing software which is not described in these Greg> manuals. I tend to agree with you here. There is a lot of material in the USD and PSD that could give FreeBSD a big `boost' onto bookshelves---but I still find them to be somewhat terse in some places, outdated in others. In other words, Linux users would still point and laugh. What I really want are FreeBSD books written from scratch by FreeBSD people. I'd like to write such a book. As someone who's authored, Greg, how much time does such an endeavor take? I remember Terry Lambert's analysis of 2600 hours or some such figure. The inevitable conclusion: by the time you've finished the book, it's out of date by three or four OS releases---not that THAT stops Linux books. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death. -- Jack Handey