From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 11 12:14:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81B7215017 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA86185; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 12:13:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Martin Hinner Subject: Re: Contribution In-Reply-To: <18799.944942734@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > 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. I would point to the Tutorials as being more HOWTO-like. As usual the trouble is finding people to write the documents in the first place. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message