Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:02:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Ray Seals <rayseals@midwestis.com> Cc: Freebsd-Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: On-line Help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809300853240.308-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <000d01bdec7e$b9fde2e0$1a1e10ac@rseals.midwestis.com>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Ray Seals wrote: >Since Jordan and Greg read this group also, I would like to make this >comment. The one thing I will hand to the Linux crowd is the HOWTO pages on >their website. While we have a pretty decent set of help pages on our side. >As a FreeBSD newbie (1.2 years) I have found some things rather difficult to >track down. I propose that we spend some time porting their HOWTO pages to Even that requires manpower. Tutorials do get written. FAQs do get written. The handbook does get written. The book does get published. All of these documents include "HOWTO" documentation. More documentation is always a good thing, but it requires manpower. I fail to see that an entirely new an independent documentation effort is necessary. There is already a framework in place for the submission of documentation. This current framework only requires manpower. I do agree that there is some difficulty in the indexing all of the documentation. This problem is common to the entire net. When I can't find what I am looking for in the provided indexes, I use the website search engine. If it's on the website, I'll find it. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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