From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 19:15:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B73D16A7C9; Fri, 12 May 2006 19:15:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DB943D46; Fri, 12 May 2006 19:15:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gothmog.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id k4CJFfYs008983 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 12 May 2006 22:15:43 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4CJHpxm017942; Fri, 12 May 2006 22:17:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k4CJHpEF017941; Fri, 12 May 2006 22:17:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 22:17:51 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Marc Fonvieille Message-ID: <20060512191751.GA17919@gothmog.pc> References: <20060507163758.GA51229@gothmog.pc> <20060508.083506.59684188.hrs@allbsd.org> <168248421.20060508023256@rulez.sk> <20060513.012824.32706574.hrs@allbsd.org> <20060512190629.GD83314@abigail.blackend.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060512190629.GD83314@abigail.blackend.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.98, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.42, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, Hiroki Sato , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook Makefile book.sgml chapters.ent doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nanobsd Makefile chapter.sgml 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, 12 May 2006 19:16:04 -0000 On 2006-05-12 21:06, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:28:24AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > > Daniel Gerzo wrote > > in <168248421.20060508023256@rulez.sk>: > > > > da> Then we can tell the same about the whole MAC and Audit chapters, > > da> since they seem a lot more advanced and tricky to me than NanoBSD. > > > > Not the same. Again, what I wanted to mean is that it is not a > > typical installation/building method for users who read a chapter > > for normal installation in Handbook. I did not mean by the word > > "advanced" it is difficult to understand or simply complex, so I > > showed multi-os and fbsd-from-scratch as examples. They are > > actually useful configurations but not topics which Handbook has to > > cover in detail, and I think they are ones which users should read > > *after* Handbook. Mixing these two sort of topics often makes > > Handbook's structure complex. A lot of information at one place is > > not always good. > [...] > > I share the same opinion. I'm more for an embedded-handbook since > it's a very specific domain and since we want FreeBSD to cover the > embedded world in a more important way than it was till today. A > specific book or article will give us more ease to add and develop > documentations on this area. Ok, I'll split-off "NanoBSD" in a nanobsd/ article for now. When we start getting more documentation for embedding FreeBSD, we can either make it a collection of articles or a book.