> There are tons and tons of information but not for
> beginners to ease
> them. It is for people (lots related to system
> administration) who
> might be doing a set tasks many times over, they can
> take a printout
> of the doc and use it as a desk top reference. It is
> useful for that,
> no dou
> Have a look at Microsofts Channel 9 - you can listen to engineers speal> of
> the changes they've made to Windows kernel, the benefits, etc. etc.That's
> exactly what the Sun engineers have been doing for the past two years.In
> fact, Sun engineers were the first to popularize it.> What it so
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 01:38 -0700, UNIX admin wrote:
> > I find the professional documentation for Solaris
> > fairly typical of
> > professional documentation these days, and not
> > terribly useful. It is,
> > as you say, detailed and step-by-step. What it
> > *doesn't* do is give me
> > any
On 7/19/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question to you is, how is the documentation supposed
> to answer a question as undefined as yours?
>
> First you need to communicate what it is that you'd like to
> know, in more precise terms, then I can point you to the
> corresponding docum
On 7/19/07, a b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Voluminous - yes
> > Detailed - yes
> > Usability - I have mixed feelings. Often it has been notes put up on
> > the blogs, mailing list archives or queries on newsgroups that seem to
> > give me the right answers.
> > (I can count myself among those w
> I find the professional documentation for Solaris
> fairly typical of
> professional documentation these days, and not
> terribly useful. It is,
> as you say, detailed and step-by-step. What it
> *doesn't* do is give me
> any traction in really understanding how the system
> works;
The ques
> > http://docs.sun.com/> >> > Voluminous - yes>
> > Detailed - yes> Usability - I have mixed feelings. Often it has been notes
> > put up on> the blogs, mailing list archives or queries on newsgroups that
> > seem to> give me the right answers.> (I can count mysel
On 7/18/07, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It's of course your spare time and effort, but as far as (Open)Solaris
> documentation goes, I believe that your time would be better spent developing
> great new software for Solaris, on Solaris, than writing documents which
> already exist,
UNIX admin wrote:
>> To build the knowledge following development projects
>> are started in the Menhir project:
>> * A document based on "BSD Associate Exam Objectives"
>> will be written which guides every user in the use
>> and administration of FreeBSD, NetBSD, Slackware and
>> OpenSolaris.
>>
> To build the knowledge following development projects
> are started in the Menhir project:
> * A document based on "BSD Associate Exam Objectives"
> will be written which guides every user in the use
> and administration of FreeBSD, NetBSD, Slackware and
> OpenSolaris.
> * A document based on "Ad
I want to make here a note which is somewhat off-topic but on the other side
not:
As I posted my "press release" about Menhir I think you read already this point:
* A collection of kernel configuration files for desktops, laptops and servers.
You get insight in the structure and building of the
Again I thank everyone for their comments as they helped me to come to the
final design of the Menhir distribution project.
I have written something like a press release. I want to post it here so you
can know in which direction Menhir goes.
***Begin
Menhir was started t
Dear OpenSolaris community,
With this post I started the work on Menhir.
Menhir is a source based distribution of 4 free
operating systems: Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenSolaris.
Menhir will distribute the sources of:
FreeBSD Release 6.1 (base system)
Slackware 11.0 (all packages which are
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