From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 18:52:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE71EFB6 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:52:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com (mail-vc0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972678FC15 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id fo13so7101524vcb.13 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=zkX4pdlNZSigT0qVRrZqVPBs4SoCEIeuRONlylqSMJo=; b=ldx3A5NdBQs1gKzkqVQO32NyciPMt1V3ub0myONcicTH5aT3MP26OIq5NUyu2zkcNe cxqH38d6+hff/V12uzUhZ88fdUFfTtE9RGimCVXHAg/TIMPa/ZN0XI5lkXpb11+bQ5C/ c3B5uTsD98b5Z2ET0NjdBn4EY2LPfyIqvohFUCOI9PdcN0pAvH4j2m+aLENN/gz0SWS5 SIfMPvCeY2Oxh40rpQBGCTJx5uUM6Hde5aUqx+LHs+5zy4D2+gwMmtZPcV9XXztsAq84 7O9SrYO9YOxYMLy4Hmkx44jf8spxFJjugzvAAFe1EOOKk0PsRZmvpVYCwDGtGwrPKpiC mNOQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.162.130 with SMTP id ya2mr18652064veb.2.1353351134801; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.218.35 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:52:14 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Help review the FAQ From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:52:16 -0000 On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > Hey all, > > The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and > changing. The first step in that process is to figure out what needs > to be changed. > > If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one > question and add your comments and concerns it > would be immensely helpful. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ > > -- > Eitan Adler > The following points may be inspected : 4.4.1. What kind of hard drives does FreeBSD support? Requires complete rewrite . 4.4.5. Which CD-ROM drives are supported by FreeBSD? 4.4.6. Which CD-RW drives are supported by FreeBSD? SATA devices ? DVD RW ? Blue-Ray RW ? burncd is not used any more . 6.3. Where can I get CDE for FreeBSD? CDE become open source ( LGPL ). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment http://cdesktopenv.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/ 9.2. How do I move my system over to my huge new disk? 9.3. Will a "dangerously dedicated" disk endanger my health? 9.6. Why can I not edit the disk label on my ccd(4)? Requires some rewrite with respect do bsdinstall , because sysinstall is not used any more in new distributions . 11.7. What is a virtual console and how do I make more? 11.8. How do I access the virtual consoles from X? Application with KMS effects ? Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk