Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 14:59:34 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Questions to kill in FAQ Message-ID: <20050512185934.GA75352@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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Folks, I've just (lightly) read the entire FAQ, and have noticed several questions that IMHO are no longer Frequently Asked. IM(NS)HO, these should be deleted from the FAQ. I got brave and deleted the entry for the SCSI card that hasn't been manufactured for 13 years, but as I found more and more I thought it would make more sense to produce a list and solicit opinions before I tread on somebody's pet question. :-) So, following is a list of NLAFs (No Longer a FAQ) that I think should be either deleted entirely, or severely gutted. The question numbers are against a current FAQ build. I suspect there are more, but these are obvious. Comments? Opinions? ==ml 3.16 -- I believe that the 1024 limit no longer exists on modern FreeBSD? 5.2 -- So, some model of EISA SCSI card has trouble on some model of HP Netserver. This has been in the FAQ for many years, and I suspect it is now irrelevant. It is already useless, because we have no idea what model this would be. :-) 5.9 -- NLAF? 6.1 -- FreeBSD Mall doesn't seem to offer the mentioned "Desktop Edition." (I could lean forward and ask Murray, but Robert is talking at the moment and that would be rude.) 6.2,6.4 -- Metrolink seems to be gone, and XiG doesn't appear to support FreeBSD 6.3 -- The answer seems to be "sorry, no longer available." 9.3 -- NLAF? 9.4 -- NLAF? 16.8 -- NLAF? 18.15 -- NLAF? 18.16 -- If we're axing 3.X in the FAQ, this whole Q&A needs rewriting. I could make a stab at it from a pure grammar/math perspective, but would prefer some input from someone who actually works on the code. :-) -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequiter
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