On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:58:10 +1000, "Colin Charles" byte@aeon.com.my said:
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Considering the fact that FreeBSD handbook is larger than any of the Red Hat guides the difference in terminology looks just like nitpicking to me. End users just want the document regardless of whats its called.
Glad you brought this up. The FreeBSD Handbook is a *great resource*. If Fedora Docs wants to have the best documentation a Linux distribution can ever have, the aim should be the style of The FreeBSD Handbook
Its just _amazing_
Definitely.
IMHO, though, it's hard to reproduce:
- Their release schedule is slower, which gives them a lot more time to check and revise the whole extent for each release.
- They assume a narrower target audience than we might be comfortable with.
- The sections also seem fairly tightly scoped. They extensively use callouts to man pages to supplement the material.
- I get the impression that they have a much smaller and more unified set of core software than we currently do.
- According to an interview with a FreeBSD documenter, the Handbook has about 15 active contributors, which must be quite hard to co-ordinate:
http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200408/trhodesinterview.html --
Stuart Ellis