Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-06 Thread Karel Miklav
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-05 Thread Benjamin Keating
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-05 Thread David Gerard
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 It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date.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 like to

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-05 Thread David Gerard
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
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, if it's

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Karel Miklav
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 It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date.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. I

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Bart Silverstrim
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread dayton
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread MikeM
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Trevor Sullivan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread cpghost
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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Randy Pratt
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 could

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
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 rather

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Chuck Robey
Trevor Sullivan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
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,

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
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

RE: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-03 Thread bob
: 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' HOWTO rather