svn commit: r40985 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2013-02-16 16:36, Eitan Adler <eadler at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Author: eadler
> Date: Sat Feb 16 16:36:22 2013
> New Revision: 40985
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40985
> 
> Log:
>   Remove ancient things.

Slightly belated comments.  I just caught up with doc-commit email
though, so please bear with me.

> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml	Sat Feb 16 16:36:19 2013	(r40984)
> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/projects/newbies.xml	Sat Feb 16 16:36:22 2013	(r40985)
> @@ -78,13 +78,6 @@
>            <a href="http://www.awfulhak.org/ppp.html">ppp page</a>
>            for links to the other valuable information and the latest updates.</p></li>
>  
> -      <li><p><a name="cfbsd" href="http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/">The
> -	    Complete &os;</a> by Greg Lehey, published by O'Reilly.
> -	  This book assumes minimal UNIX experience and takes the
> -	  beginner step by step through each stage from installation to
> -	  everything you need to know to set up and run a &os; system. You
> -	  also get to understand what you are doing and why.</p></li>

This is still a book that is available online and may serve a useful
purpose for people who are entirely new to BSD.  Maybe we should have a
section for 'historical documentation' and move this book there?

> -      <li><p>The main newsgroup for &os; is <a
> -	    href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a>.
> -	  You might want to keep an eye on <a
> -	    href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a>
> -	  as well.</p></li>

I still use comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and it is moderately active.  It
doesn't have the traffic that it used to have a decade ago, but I think
removing it altogether is a bit bad.

For example here's what I saw this morning when I opened the group:

,-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| . 2013-02-22  Andrew Falanga       (    0) Re: Trouble making an EFI System Partition on my USB thumb drive
| . 2013-02-23  Torfinn Ingolfsen    (   11) ╰─▶ Re: Trouble making an EFI System Partition on my USB thumb drive
| . 2013-02-22  Tim Daneliuk         (   50) [ANN]: ’tsshbatch’, Batch ssh Tool, Version 1.137 Released
`------------------------------------------------------------------------

So there are still a few people who find the newsgroups useful.  On the
other hand maybe new users are now completely disconnected from Usenet
and newsgroups and this is just me being an old-fart.

I'm not entirely sure if I want to keep *all* references to Usenet
groups.  But seeing 'comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc' go made me a bit sad.