From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 03:21:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA22976 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 03:21:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA22949 Mon, 29 Jan 1996 03:21:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id MAA21851; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:15:27 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA02240; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:04:06 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:04:06 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Hackers , FreeBSD Documenters Subject: Re: What printed documentation do we need? In-Reply-To: <199601201712.SAA20327@allegro.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<