Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:36:05 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook - What's Missing? Message-ID: <4ad871310907230736t29257c96v5f7230bcdf3a4089@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A66B882.70204@gmail.com> References: <4ad871310907201847w15ceb0hce73bc4de9de0f0b@mail.gmail.com> <4A66B882.70204@gmail.com>
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Hi, Manolis On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Manolis Kiagias<sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wro= te: > Glen Barber wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Short of PRs and list posts, is there a central location to find >> documentation that may be missing (or may need updating) for the >> transition to the 8.X branch? >> >> > None I am aware of. =A0The major enhancements are always in the release > announcement, though not all of these call for a handbook section (and > there are other more subtle changes that may need existing sections to > be modified). > That's what I had assumed, but I wanted to check if there was an external resource (similar to the LOR reporting site). I wanted to be sure I didn't miss it somewhere in my searching. [snip] > (how often do you go searching in /dev?) but it resulted in the update Too often. More than anyone probably should. :) > > If you have a good idea of what is in the Handbook, you can probably > find some sections that need to be updated by using the betas. =A0For > example, trying out 8.0-BETA1 I was surprised that I could not configure > my wireless card like I always did. Then I found out about the new > virtual wifi and the changes needed in ifconfig etc. These will > definitely need to be documented in the Handbook. > > A very good page to start looking is Ivan Voras' "What's cooking for > FreeBSD 8?" > > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html > > Yes, I've seen his "What's cooking" stuff before. Very good stuff. Thanks for the reply. --=20 Glen Barber
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