Help review the FAQ

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
> changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
> to be changed.
>
> If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
> question and add your comments and concerns it
> would be immensely helpful.
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
>


The following points may be inspected :


4.4.1. What kind of hard drives does FreeBSD support?

Requires complete rewrite .


4.4.5. Which CD-ROM drives are supported by FreeBSD?
4.4.6. Which CD-RW drives are supported by FreeBSD?


SATA devices ?
DVD RW ?
Blue-Ray RW ?

burncd is not used any more .


6.3. Where can I get CDE for FreeBSD?

CDE become open source ( LGPL ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
http://cdesktopenv.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/


9.2. How do I move my system over to my huge new disk?
9.3. Will a "dangerously dedicated" disk endanger my health?
9.6. Why can I not edit the disk label on my ccd(4)?

Requires some rewrite with respect do bsdinstall , because sysinstall is
not used any more in new
distributions .


11.7. What is a virtual console and how do I make more?
11.8. How do I access the virtual consoles from X?


Application with KMS effects ?


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk