On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:06PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote:
> Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little
> more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of
> date.
What is out of date?
Generally, if you want to improve something in the handbook
A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily
include a 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user into
reading that one line where it says you have to
: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.
A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily
include a 'typical home user' HO
On 2005-05-03 17:29, Benjamin Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 5/3/05, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:06PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote:
>>> Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little
>>> more updated? It's a great handbook,
Benjamin Keating wrote:
> Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little
> more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of
> date.
>
> A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project
> like it yet, I'd like to propose we set one up.
On May 4, 2005, at 2:30 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-05-03 17:29, Benjamin Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Things like that bring noise to this mailing list.
It's ok. This is part of the purpose of having the list :)
You wouldn't think so from the flak some people have received for not
Benjamin Keating wrote:
> Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little
> more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of
> date.
>
> A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project
> like it yet, I'd
I would love to see a wiki for FreeBSD. I think that it would be
really beneficial for the project. It would take some work to
establish it but if there were enough participants, it could turn into
a very robust documentation project. Some hard work would be required
to make the wiki healthy and to
On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote:
|A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
|Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
|could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily
|include a 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user
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Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote:
> I would love to see a wiki for FreeBSD. I think that it would be
> really beneficial for the project. It would take some work to
> establish it but if there were enough participants, it could turn
> into a very robust doc
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:54:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A compromise approach could be to do what www.php.net does. On this site
> they have the official manual, which has the same flaws as the FBSD handbook
> (out of date pages, obtuse descriptions, ...). In addition, postings from
On Wed, 04 May 2005 09:12:09 -0400
"MikeM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote:
>
> |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
> |Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
> |could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles
MikeM wrote:
> On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote:
>
> |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). |Some parts are out
> of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that |could really help.
> For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily |include a
> 'typical home user' HOWTO rathe
Trevor Sullivan wrote:
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know it's off-topic, but I thought it might surprise some folks, and
it's possible it could prove important to some, I guess. Notice the
words above, about him using the sha-1 hash. You realize it's been
broken? The crypto
This is great! I'd love to contribute my mediawiki template and
graphic design knowledge to spice it up a bit if you're interested.
Either way, I'll be using / populating that thing with as much quality
info as I can. Thanks! Are you in charge of this?
- bpk
On 5/4/05, Karel Miklav <[EMAIL PROTE
Benjamin Keating ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 10:00]:
> Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little
> more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of
> date.
> A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project
> like it yet, I'd lik
Karel Miklav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050504 21:19]:
> Benjamin Keating wrote:
> > A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project
> > like it yet, I'd like to propose we set one up. I can contribute quite
> > a bit of time and resources towards this. Save me wiki.freebsd.org and
Benjamin Keating wrote:
> Either way, I'll be using / populating that thing with as much quality
> info as I can. Thanks! Are you in charge of this?
No, you should talk to the Jimbo guy ("Jimbo is a FreeBSD enthusiast /
professional / zealot, depending on who you ask, and is the maintainer
of this
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