From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 11 22:56: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E03414D5C; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:56:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA22987; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Nik Clayton Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Alphas, the website, the FAQ, and the Handbook In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:22:56 BST." <19990806142256.A50517@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:54:37 -0700 Message-ID: <22983.934437277@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm willing to take this on. - Jordan > Hi chaps, > > I'm not an Alpha owner, I don't know much about them, and I'm not > subscribed to this list, but. . . I seem to have overall responsibility > for the FreeBSD documentation. > > A brief glance over the FreeBSD website and the "Installing FreeBSD" > section in the Handbook () > shows that our available documentation is still massively biased in favour > of the PC. > > Now that the Alpha distribution is a part of the main source tree (and > obviously has been for some time) I think it's high time we changed that. > > I can work over the FreeBSD web site content and remove some of the PC > specific references where the information applies to the Alpha as well. > But I don't have the requisite knowledge to be able to add to the > "Installing FreeBSD" chapter, nor do I know what any of the appropriate > FAQs for the Alpha distribution would be? > > Is there anyone on this list who could help out with this, and write the > necessary sections in the documentation? If so, please get in touch, > and we can try and rectify this hole in our documentation. > > Cheers, > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message