Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:30:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: Martin Hinner <mhi@linux.gyarab.cz>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Contribution Message-ID: <199912112030.PAA65255@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <18799.944942734@monkeys.com>
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On 11-Dec-99 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > In message <3852771D.8C8BFA3C@newsguy.com>, > Martin Hinner <mhi@linux.gyarab.cz> 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. No, the Handbook has many maintainers, and they all read the -doc list, which is where you probably should be posting documentation questions: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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