Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:04:06 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Documenters <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: What printed documentation do we need? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960129113853.520A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199601201712.SAA20327@allegro.lemis.de>
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On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Greg Lehey wrote:
> I'm currently in the process of formatting the FreeBSD man pages for
> printing, and it's evident that there's a lot of stuff missing. In
> particular:
Before the online manual section I'd suggest to put in front some
other nice information about FreeBSD, perhaps some docs from the
WEB server.
- History of FreeBSD
- The people behind FreeBSD
- FreeBSD's goal
- Where FreeBSD is available, as well a list of European WC resellers.
The following issues should be covered as well
- Supported Hardware (-stable, -current, near future plans)
- Installation methods
The usage of the fixit disk should be explained. Perhaps a list
of available commands, as reference.
Then I'd like to see a collections of FAQ's from comp.answers, that
could help people with stuff like PPP or INN. I think of the following
FAQ's (perhaps some of them not, only a suggestion, since I never saw
a book covering these issues !):
- comp.protocols.ppp
- World Wide Web Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), Introduction
- Csh Programming Considered Harmful
- comp.mail.sendmail FAQ
- Catalog of compilers, interpreters and other language tools
- comp.compression
- comp.mail.mime
- comp.periphs.scsi
- comp.lang.tcl
- XFree86 FAQ
- comp.windows.x
- ISO 8859-1 character set
- data communications cabling
- comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
- comp.dcom.isdn
- FAQ for g++, libg++
- UUCP internals FAQ
- UNIX email software survey
- comp client-server
- ELM mail user agent FAQ
- Unix shell differences and how to change your shell FAQ
- comp.arch.storage
- x86 assembly language faq
- Majordomo FAQ
- Enhanced IDE/Fast ATA.... FAQ (?)
- z shell FAQ
- comp lang perl FAQ
- MH FAQ
- Motif FAQ
- mgetty+sendfax FAQ
- comp.unix.bsd FAQ (????? perhaps better an updated FreeBSD FAQ...)
- Unix FAQ (!!!)
- Accessing the Internet by e-mai FAQ
- Pointer to elm FAQ
- INN FAQ
And of course we need some kind of HOWTO's ..
Howto add a disk
Howto configure FreeBSD as a router
Howto secure the system using xxx (xxx=tcp_wrappers,...)
Howto use the ports section
Ok, man of these things should be / maybe are (?) covered by the
FreeBSD manual...
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