Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 11:13:48 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nclayton@lehman.com> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>, Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of reality <cjc26@cornell.edu> Subject: Re: Sanity regained -- back with the best Message-ID: <19990721111348.A2353@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990719183455.conrads@home.com>; from Conrad Sabatier on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:34:55PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191628560.8919-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net> <XFMail.990719183455.conrads@home.com>
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On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:34:55PM -0500, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> On 19-Jul-99 Tani Hosokawa wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, a disembodied voice emerging from the chaos of
> > reality wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> >>
> >> | Only thing is, I don't have any Linux experience other than with
> >> | RedHat. Never tried any other distributions. So, for Debian, or
> >> | others, I'll be needing some input from others.
> >>
> >> I've got lots of Debian experience..I'd be willing to help out
> >> with this.
> >
> > I at one point in time was an avid Slackware user, so if I can be
> > of any assistance... I'm also a current RedHat user.
>
> Looks like we're getting a team together here. :-) Anyone else out
> there with any experience with other distros?
Not sure, but this is certainly encouraging. I'd desperately like to see
a Linux users Primer for FreeBSD, along the same lines as the DocProj
Primer.
To kick you all off, here's some ideas for organisation and possible
chapter titles for the 'book'[1]
Introduction
What is FreeBSD?
Why choose FreeBSD?
Why choose Linux?
Installation
Boot and root disks
sysinstall
Post-installation configuration
System configuration
/etc/
/usr/local/etc/
Installing third party apps
Packages
Ports
Networking
PPP
Ethernet
Disks
Floppy disks
Fixed disks
CD-ROM
Audio
Sound cards
...
and more. None of these chapters has to go in to a great deal of detail
about how FreeBSD does things (that's what the Handbook is for), but it
does have to explain how FreeBSD differs from Linux. This is where I
think there'll probably be a lot of tables, showing the FreeBSD command in
one column, and the equivalent Linux (Redhat/Debian/SuSE/whatever) commands
in other columns.
The important thing to remember is to keep it task-based. I don't expect
a Linux user to read through something like this in one go. More likely
is that they'll be trying to accomplish some task (for example, viewing
the routing table) and they'll know how to do it in Linux, but have no
idea how to do it in FreeBSD.
Make sense?
N
[1] That's just a DocBook-ism, don't be put off, it doesn't mean you
have to write thousands of words.
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