On 11-Dec-99 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>
> 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.
No, the Handbook has many maintainers, and they all read the -doc list, which
is where you probably should be posting documentation questions:
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