Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:54:37 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Alphas, the website, the FAQ, and the Handbook Message-ID: <22983.934437277@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Aug 1999 14:22:56 BST." <19990806142256.A50517@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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I'm willing to take this on. - Jordan > Hi chaps, > > I'm not an Alpha owner, I don't know much about them, and I'm not > subscribed to this list, but. . . I seem to have overall responsibility > for the FreeBSD documentation. > > A brief glance over the FreeBSD website and the "Installing FreeBSD" > section in the Handbook (<URL:http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install.html>) > shows that our available documentation is still massively biased in favour > of the PC. > > Now that the Alpha distribution is a part of the main source tree (and > obviously has been for some time) I think it's high time we changed that. > > I can work over the FreeBSD web site content and remove some of the PC > specific references where the information applies to the Alpha as well. > But I don't have the requisite knowledge to be able to add to the > "Installing FreeBSD" chapter, nor do I know what any of the appropriate > FAQs for the Alpha distribution would be? > > Is there anyone on this list who could help out with this, and write the > necessary sections in the documentation? If so, please get in touch, > and we can try and rectify this hole in our documentation. > > Cheers, > > N > -- > [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, > non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs > the links. > -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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