Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:11:10 -0700 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: lehey.pad@sni.de Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What printed documentation do we need? Message-ID: <9601301511.AA00890@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199601240930.KAA27771@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> (message from Greg Lehey on Wed, 24 Jan 96 10:26:34 MET)
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>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey <lehey.pad@sni.de> writes:
Greg> My thoughts are that we should print completely different
Greg> manuals describing software which is not described in these
Greg> manuals.
I tend to agree with you here. There is a lot of material in the USD
and PSD that could give FreeBSD a big `boost' onto bookshelves---but I
still find them to be somewhat terse in some places, outdated in
others. In other words, Linux users would still point and laugh.
What I really want are FreeBSD books written from scratch by FreeBSD
people. I'd like to write such a book.
As someone who's authored, Greg, how much time does such an endeavor
take? I remember Terry Lambert's analysis of 2600 hours or some such
figure. The inevitable conclusion: by the time you've finished the
book, it's out of date by three or four OS releases---not that THAT
stops Linux books.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA
I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.
-- Jack Handey
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