From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 14 08:22:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB84616A417 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray.stokely@gmail.com) Received: from ag-out-0708.google.com (ag-out-0708.google.com [72.14.246.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847F113C458 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:22:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray.stokely@gmail.com) Received: by ag-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 35so426868aga for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:22:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=xuW/S2W3r/B2vVJWR3fmEFcGjlo9brx7OkVAdxZHh2o=; b=BDKGIaIeGsXr7dKs9R59pYFqmR/c4QmDcBqXKs2L9r7X+VRS3dIotH/4SUVP4MK9PuiDLQ1Qyvqf4B4VJUFbpLATYn/xHvP39mDErMw7GuaiYs6X0t9+jy5/jG1lthfHldnQWqPa6scewgYUt4pbKcGMl7TAaGYPy5odiKS3WGg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=p7EuLdF/OHq2rRH+9XsYVn4LwQ5+WbezgGV3yESn0WEaw+Tp7NH38MWoFMeSP7jgQcflWp3UZ5VZMxg830BQRiXHEXSW5Q0vr6fau+jSvoFdKaa3f8U298VCUdGaNhnDhYlUs2QP+6A671CmnlfomzSiH5+/U4wbXG8d1jTRn/c= Received: by 10.142.222.21 with SMTP id u21mr342294wfg.1189757195944; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.193.6 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <474078f80709140106u1e1efb71n2f75b65940886f7c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:06:35 +0200 From: "Murray Stokely" To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Matt Olander Subject: PC-BSD Handbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:22:29 -0000 I'd like to start working on a PC-BSD Handbook. I think that a lot of the content in the first two parts of the Handbook could be shared. For example, the Unix Basics chapter could be included without modification in a PC-BSD Handbook. I would prefer to check in something into doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/pc-bsd-handbook. The SGML files there would occasionally include chapters from ../handbook. The most important two chapters that we need are a new Chapter 1 : Introduction, and a new Chapter 2 : Installation. The next most important chapter to write is on Ports and Packages. Once those three chapters are written, we can put together a useful Handbook specifically for PC-BSD users that can help raise the profile of PC-BSD. The PC-BSD introduction chapter could in turn be added as an appendix to the main Handbook. I think we should do this inside the normal FreeBSD Doc Project framework to raise awareness and produce closer ties between people working on PC-BSD and the base FreeBSD. Thoughts or concerns about this? - Murray