BSD For Linux Users (update)

[Diane Bruce]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 10:33:57AM -0700, Derek Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 07:50:52PM -0000, sib at 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 improvement and help us teach more new users about how we do things.
> > 

I've been wanting this done for quite some time. I'm spread very thin.

Please do it. :-)


> > Also, a few official pages on freebsd.org are growing a bit old
> > (references to CVS, etc.) and might need similar treatment:
> > 
> > FreeBSD: An Open Source Alternative to Linux
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-comparison/article.html
> > FreeBSD Quickstart Guide for Linux Users
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/linux-users/index.html
> > Comparing BSD and Linux
> > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/comparing-bsd-and-linux.html
> > 
> > I'm going to begin going through all of these pages in the next few days
> > and see what needs to be updated and how much work this will be, but I
> > would greatly appreciate any help from the community!
> > 

Thank you.


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> My suggestion would be to host it on wiki.freebsd.org and then
> eventually convert it into an article or chapter of the handbook. If
> you don't have an account for the wiki you can drop by #bsddocs or
> #bsdports on efnet and someone will get you sorted.
> 
> As for the article, I think it would be most productive to examine
> which of those you linked can be replaced with the document you intend
> to write, then make sure that the new document includes the
> information of the outgoing documents. We don't really need >3 "Linux
> vs FreeBSD" articles, just one really good one.
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Diane
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