Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:50:32 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Toby Burress <kurin@delete.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Common utilities Message-ID: <20060902045032.4e3715d3.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060831224144.GV12159@cobalt.delete.org> References: <20060831224144.GV12159@cobalt.delete.org>
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:41:44 -0400 Toby Burress <kurin@delete.org> wrote: > I've been working on a docbook book for a while now and I'd like > to get some feedback before I go much further. > > The purpose is to be a guidebook listing various utilities available > in FreeBSD that a new (or not so new) admin might not be familiar > with or, if he/she knows about them, perhaps he doesn't quite know > what they can do. > > Right now I basically have a skeleton of utilities written up. You > can find the HTML at http://www.causa-sui.net/common-utils/ and the > SGML at http://www.causa-sui.net/cu-src.tar.bz2. > > Please let me know what you think, all comments welcome, etc. > Specifically let me know if you think this is different enough from > the handbook to warrant its own book (to me the handbook seems > task-oriented, whereas this project has no specific tasks in mind, > its only goal is to breed awareness and perhaps familiarity). Sure does look like an interesting idea. Keeping up with changes in utilities might be a full time job though. I'm guessing the manual pages do not explain things well enough? -- Tom Rhodes
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