Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors

2013-10-10 Thread Derek Wood
> > * Ease of installation: bsdinstall is new; maybe link screenshots > > of it or the section in the handbook that covers installation > > with bsdinstall. > This has been done for a while: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-bsdinstall.html Sorry,

Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors

2013-10-10 Thread Derek Wood
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:14:48AM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > Here is an overview of the people that visit FreeBSD.org: > http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/Report-10.01.pdf > > Some takeaways: > > - More than half (60%) the people that come to our website leave > without going to another p

Re: [CALL FOR REVIEW] Upgrading to DocBook 5.0

2013-08-02 Thread Derek Wood
The FOP output looks real nice. A few things though: 1. It appears that the links to svn revisions do not work. The FAQ book has an example of this in the question "Does ZFS support TRIM for Solid State Drives" (pg. 51). 2. Author attributions (chapter 3 heading in the handbook, pg. 13) unnecessa

Re: broken instructions for buildkernel

2013-06-19 Thread Derek Wood
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 04:51:01PM -0700, Tony Hain wrote: > The steps in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > are simply broken/incomplete. This sequence goes straight from 'get the src' > to 'make buildkernel'. Doing that to build 10-current on a 9.1 fresh i

Re: RFC: Changing the documentation's font style.

2013-04-14 Thread Derek Wood
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:41:46AM +0100, Isabell Long wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent this idea to the #bsddocs IRC channel a few days ago and no-one > there objected, but here you go. I'd like to know your opinions on the > documentation font being changed from serif to sans-serif. This would > only

Re: website missing navigation

2013-04-11 Thread Derek Wood
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 07:46:32PM -0700, Eric Dynamic wrote: > I cannot find the link to the ports page as an item on the home page and > if I type "ports" in the search bar it says "no such thing." > > ?? > ___ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list >

Re: FREEBSD SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS MANUAL

2013-03-21 Thread Derek Wood
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 04:08:55PM -0500, Claudia Chairez wrote: > Hi! > > Where can I find this for purchase? I am looking for the english translated > version. > > Thanks! > > Claudia C. > ___ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.fre

Re: Where is the freebsd-vendors mailing list?

2013-03-07 Thread Derek Wood
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 04:14:12PM -0800, Chris H wrote: > Greetings, > Where's the freebsd-vendors mailing list? > According to: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL > > It exists. > > Thank you for all your time, and consideration in th

Re: BSD For Linux Users (update)

2013-03-01 Thread Derek Wood
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50:52PM -, s...@tormail.org wrote: > My question to you: Would anyone here be interested in updating it (or > just helping a bit) to be more accurate with the modern FreeBSD world, and > has a place to host it that we can link to? I think this would really be a > nice

Re: Would enough people like a tutorial in freebsd developer handbook

2013-02-27 Thread Derek Wood
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:30:29PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, Anthony Brown wrote: > > >Would enough people like a tutorial in freebsd developer handbook on > >freebsd 64 bit assembly language using the c standard library. > > Interesting. But maybe a tutorial would be bet