Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:53:36 +0000 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD User Guide Message-ID: <19990111105336.E12726@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <36958776.15E4FD19@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:20:06PM -0500 References: <36958776.15E4FD19@aei.ca>
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On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:20:06PM -0500, Malartre wrote: > The FreeBSD User Guide (that name may change..) > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/ > > "This is a kind of Q&A/tutorial on the basics of the FreeBSD Operating > System (OS), a UNIX variant. It's made for people who never used a UNIX > OS." Malartre, this looks great. I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be linked to from both the newbies page on the site and the current FreeBSD FAQ (i.e., "Q: I'm new to Unix as well as new to FreeBSD, is there anything I can read? A: Try _this_ FAQ." Would you be interested in bringing this in as a supplementary FAQ to the existing FreeBSD FAQ, and joining the increasingly swelling ranks of the FreeBSD committers? This would be a fair amount of work, but would also bring some (hopefully) large benefits; Work: o It would need to be converted from GHTML to DocBook. This is probably a bit of a shift. . . o You'd need to learn CVS, and the do's and don'ts of being a committer. Benefits: o It's on the primary FreeBSD site. This makes it more accessible, and it will appear on the mirror sites as well. o It could be installable with the system, so it's available to people even when they're not on-line. o It would be easy to produce printable versions (PostScript, PDF, RTF) and plain text versions using the existing tools. o The various Documentation Translation teams could get to work on translating it to other languages. o People can suggest changes to it in the same way they suggest changes to FreeBSD at the moment, using send-pr. o I get a new committer who can work through some of my tutorials and help me improve them :-) N -- --+==[ Systems Administrator, Year 2000 Test Lab, Lehman Brothers, Inc. ]==+-- --+==[ 1 Broadgate, London, EC2M 7HA 0171-601-0011 x5514 ]==+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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