From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 11 12: 5:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10AE414D16 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:05:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA18801; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:05:34 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Martin Hinner Subject: Re: Contribution In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 12 Dec 1999 01:09:01 +0900. <3852771D.8C8BFA3C@newsguy.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:05:34 -0800 Message-ID: <18799.944942734@monkeys.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3852771D.8C8BFA3C@newsguy.com>, Martin Hinner wrote: >Anyway, frankly, I don't think this document would be relevant to >FreeBSD. Perhaps I'm missing something... what would be the purpose >of having it? My two cents: I happen to think that the HOWTO- system of Linux is marvelous. If you want detailed information on one specific topic, e.g. filesystems, or parallel ports, or RAID, or some such thing, you just go and read the relevant HOWTO- file. A lot of the information in these HOWTO- files would NOT be appropriate to put into man pages... it's far too chatty. But it is still very very useful information and it's Good to have it exist (in writing) _somewhere_. Seems to me that the closest thing that FreeBSD has to the Linux HOWTO- files is the FreeBSD Handbook, but that's not as good, precisely because it _is_ one unified document with (I assume) a single maintainer. It seems to be better to distribute the psychological sense of ownership across many many individuals. That's what happens in the case of the Linux HOWTO- files. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message