From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 23 11:29:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luna.lyris.net (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A648515721 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kip@lyris.com) Received: from luna.shelby.com by luna.lyris.net (8.9.1b+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id LAA24498; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:29:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from (luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6]) by luna.shelby.com with SMTP (MailShield v1.50); Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:29:00 -0800 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:29:00 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy To: Peter Schwenk Cc: Mike s , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs in the handbook. (FreeBSD Portal) In-Reply-To: <386275FF.74333075@math.udel.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SMTP-HELO: luna X-SMTP-MAIL-FROM: kip@lyris.com X-SMTP-RCPT-TO: schwenk@math.udel.edu,god@yahoo.com,stable@freebsd.org X-SMTP-PEER-INFO: luna.shelby.com [207.90.155.6] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG He has a good point. One of the big challengs of FreeBSD vis a vis Linux, is a smaller user base. There are already 4 BSDs out there, it would be potentially harmful to further fragment the user base. -Kip On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Peter Schwenk wrote: > I think the general consensus is that the existing www.freebsd.org > should be the FreeBSD portal that you describe. If the documentation > sux on freebsd.org, then we should fix it there, not add to the possible > confusion by adding a totally separate web site. At least that's what I > got from the "resistance" to your idea in this list. > > Mike s wrote: > > > Well, as i can see not many people care about the > > documentation, or at least providing FreeBSD users > > with there own web site with all the bells and > > whistles similar to linux.com. > > > > What would it take for some folks to get together and > > crank out an awesome freebsd site? > > > > I'm not putting down freebsd.org nor saying that it > > isn't resourceful because it is tremendously. > > > > Doesn't anyone have an opinion on this matter? > > > > God@yahoo.com > > > > -- > PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator > Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware > schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message