From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 11 15:12:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F169E155F2; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA26482; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:05:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA15098; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:20:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:20:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Andrew Gallatin , alpha@freebsd.org Cc: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Alphas, the website, the FAQ, and the Handbook Message-ID: <19990811132001.A14539@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990806142256.A50517@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <14254.56698.258060.459112@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <14254.56698.258060.459112@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from Andrew Gallatin on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:06:07AM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 10:06:07AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > I'm *VERY* glad you're doing this. We've needed some major help for a > very long time. Just before you get too excited -- my lack of available time means that I can't do a whole lot of work on this. What I can do is co-ordinate other's efforts, and commit things to the website and/or FAQ and Handbook on other people's behalf. I stress that I *know* nothing about Alpha's on a hardware level, and the closest I've got was trying to install OpenBSD on someone else's Alpha a couple of years ago. > The first thing I'd suggest doing is ripping out most of the > http://www.freebsd.org/alpha page & replacing it with links to a > hardware compatability page, and possibly a software (ports, not the > base os, the base os has worked for nearly a year) compatability page. > > I'd be happy to help out with a hardware compatability list, etc. That's what I need. I can take your work, pull it in to the FreeBSD web site structure, and then commit it as necessary. > My knowledge of how the FreeBSD web pages work is pathetically weak I was > thinking it might make more sense for me to feed the information to > somebody else, or to simply put up some pure html pages at my site > that you could import. That'd do nicely. Ideally, you'd use send-pr(1) so that they get stuck in the bug tracking system and we can handle them that way. If anyone's got suggested re-wordings for the FreeBSD website and Handbook to emphasise that it's not just for i386 PCs anymore, now is the time to speak up. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message