In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Hinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyway, frankly, I don't think this document would be relevant to
>FreeBSD. Perhaps I'm missing something... what would be the purpose
>of having it?
My two cents:
I happen to think that the HOWTO- system of Linux is marvelous. If you
want detailed information on one specific topic, e.g. filesystems, or
parallel ports, or RAID, or some such thing, you just go and read the
relevant HOWTO- file.
A lot of the information in these HOWTO- files would NOT be appropriate
to put into man pages... it's far too chatty. But it is still very very
useful information and it's Good to have it exist (in writing) _somewhere_.
Seems to me that the closest thing that FreeBSD has to the Linux HOWTO-
files is the FreeBSD Handbook, but that's not as good, precisely because
it _is_ one unified document with (I assume) a single maintainer. It
seems to be better to distribute the psychological sense of ownership
across many many individuals. That's what happens in the case of the
Linux HOWTO- files.
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