From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 4 18:30:41 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E14B0C; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 18:30:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gkeramidas@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886FBD6B; Mon, 4 Mar 2013 18:30:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id hi18so2456304wib.3 for ; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:30:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=HIers9VHZhKzBmSKEV7APL8vWGVO3rf3mBQhBmymdwQ=; b=RqyvxFDf4B+xJ8c/tC9Y119B7zEZCpe4tGEA7NQhZbyljuPvWNR+d4NTfLxGn1gwXx UMUVOyWtGiQcjoKNr2ndmK+iMjibgbG+VtSGOV0uGzvYBk+IgmIkzSuNTH9dBHUGdIsN fbsj3HJLz5ClJqsr13iEEfLC57nIUnJXJCB32LOwWDHz2BTXyb/HyZz7yYThxPbu+42W sIBP02oQJV62pMppN7sEQXB3izCmxidcYr12KCw4Wifov3luvGfUihprWu8pH2zMXpmU /dW9oWjGawrlJqXIXyMhDdwBSmQI95rAqLZzJnmsvGrKkYP9xfow1v7iq5DdRDxZvkTL 0Lvw== X-Received: by 10.180.75.110 with SMTP id b14mr13776698wiw.21.1362421834358; Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from saturn (217-162-217-29.dynamic.hispeed.ch. [217.162.217.29]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ej8sm15751160wib.9.2013.03.04.10.30.32 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:30:33 -0800 (PST) Sender: Giorgos Keramidas Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 19:30:29 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Eitan Adler Subject: Re: svn commit: r40985 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects Message-ID: <20130304183027.GB30542@saturn> References: <201302161636.r1GGaMOI055230@svn.freebsd.org> <20130224011108.GB10994@saturn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:30:41 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline On 2013-02-25 23:29, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 23 February 2013 20:11, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > This is still a book that is available online and may serve a useful > > purpose for people who are entirely new to BSD. Maybe we should have a > > section for 'historical documentation' and move this book there? > > We have http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/. Maintaining older documentation > that contains larges amounts of dated information (as any book > N > years will) is not useful IMHO. Perhaps I am wrong? > > >> -

  • The main newsgroup for &os; is >> - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. > >> - You might want to keep an eye on >> - href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce > >> - as well.

    • > > > > I still use comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and it is moderately active. It > > doesn't have the traffic that it used to have a decade ago, but I think > > removing it altogether is a bit bad. > ... > > I'm not entirely sure if I want to keep *all* references to Usenet > > groups. But seeing 'comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc' go made me a bit sad. > > So it seems this one in particular is active. I have no objection to > restoring it. I thought it was dead (and I checked at the time, my > news mirror must have been outdated). My apologies for taking so long to come up with a reasonable way to fix this. Does the following patch look ok? It reverts the removal of two still-active newsgroups, and joins them in one paragraph. One place to talk about Usenet should be enough IMO: --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="www-usenet.diff" # HG changeset patch # User Giorgos Keramidas # Date 1362421435 -3600 # Mon Mar 04 19:23:55 2013 +0100 # Node ID 83f7f158f12a1be7f8d91364b78627e575a8786d # Parent 5069abd7a6b87f28cfd6e8ed8ca570472f71136c Revert parts of r40985 for Usenet groups that are still alive. diff -r 5069abd7a6b8 -r 83f7f158f12a en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml Mon Mar 04 16:14:13 2013 +0100 +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml Mon Mar 04 19:23:55 2013 +0100 @@ -95,6 +95,15 @@ answers via the search page.

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  • The main newsgroup for &os; is comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. + General UNIX questions are dealt with in the newsgroup comp.unix.questions and the + associated FAQ + from the RMIT FTP site. Newbies are likely to be most + interested in sections 1 and 2 initially.

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  • Manual pages are good for reference but not always the best introduction for a novice. The more you work with man pages --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--