Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:08:48 -0500 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD For Linux Users (update) Message-ID: <20130301190848.GA10978@night.db.net> In-Reply-To: <20130301173357.GA3267@yavin> References: <1UB9VE-0002eY-EQ@internal.tormail.org> <20130301173357.GA3267@yavin>
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:33:57AM -0700, Derek Wood wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50:52PM -0000, sib@tormail.org wrote: > > My question to you: Would anyone here be interested in updating it (or > > just helping a bit) to be more accurate with the modern FreeBSD world, and > > has a place to host it that we can link to? I think this would really be a > > nice improvement and help us teach more new users about how we do things. > > I've been wanting this done for quite some time. I'm spread very thin. Please do it. :-) > > Also, a few official pages on freebsd.org are growing a bit old > > (references to CVS, etc.) and might need similar treatment: > > > > FreeBSD: An Open Source Alternative to Linux > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-comparison/article.html > > FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-users/index.html > > Comparing BSD and Linux > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html > > > > I'm going to begin going through all of these pages in the next few days > > and see what needs to be updated and how much work this will be, but I > > would greatly appreciate any help from the community! > > Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > My suggestion would be to host it on wiki.freebsd.org and then > eventually convert it into an article or chapter of the handbook. If > you don't have an account for the wiki you can drop by #bsddocs or > #bsdports on efnet and someone will get you sorted. > > As for the article, I think it would be most productive to examine > which of those you linked can be replaced with the document you intend > to write, then make sure that the new document includes the > information of the outgoing documents. We don't really need >3 "Linux > vs FreeBSD" articles, just one really good one. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Diane -- - db@FreeBSD.org db@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
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