From owner-freebsd-www Sun Dec 16 11: 7:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A98137B416; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA78251; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.168.205] (cerberus [192.168.168.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fBGJ9iT86220; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 11:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:58:27 -0800 To: www@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Subject: listings for books, magazines, etc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The site's listings for publications are a bit of a maze, at present. Is there any chance that they could be reorganized and brought up to date? I am willing to do some of the work, if that would help. Here are some specific issues: http://www.FreeBSD.org/docs.html * Kirk McKusick's courses are listed under "Articles". * The "Articles" section also overlaps with the "Press" page (http://www.FreeBSD.org/news/press.html). Perhaps some way could be found to make these pages work together better. * The Daemon News entry says very little about all the things (e.g., BSDMall) they are doing. It also contains some text that appears to be intended for some other item: Like FreeBSD itself, this documentation is the product of a volunteer effort. The goals of the project are outlined here, as are the procedures for submitting corrections and new material. http://www.freebsd.org/publish.html This page is, IMHO, more cute than useful. It is tedious to navigate, contains typos, and is badly out of date. I would like to suggest a redesign of this page and the addition of a number of items. * Add listings for more recent publications, including: Complete FreeBSD, 3rd. Ed. Daemon News The DOSSIER series FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd. Ed. FreeBSD An Open-Source OS for your PC (2nd. Edition) * Add pointers to places where these publications may be obtained. * Split up the page by type of publication and/or language. * Kill off the listings for items (e.g., FreeBSD News) that are of only historic interest. (These could be moved to another page, if desired). * Fix assorted errors in the descriptions. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collectiontion To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message