Over a year and half ago, I asked the DragonFly documentation workers to choose to just keep their handbook in progress in CVS. This was because there were two versions -- one in a wiki and one in DocBook in CVS -- that were growing independently (but were same originally). We didn't have tools (or time) to keep in sync and we didn't have tools (or time) to convert the wiki content into nice printable format.
Since then parts of the wiki disappeared and were lost and weren't committed back to the CVS. There has been random improvements to the CVS version. There have been patches submitted but I think never committed. In hindsight, probably just doing the work in a wiki probably would have been best (other than the fact that original wiki, I think, was turned off). Because a wiki makes it easier and quicker for a larger community to contribute back. At least that is what I am hoping ... A collaborative, short-term open source authoring project to quickly write a book covering the basics from the 2005 BSDA Certification Requirements Document was recently started. The BSD Certification Group's BSDA (BSD Associate) Certification is for BSD Unix system administrators with light to moderate skills. Using a wiki interface, authors, reviewers and readers all contribute to complete the book by the end of February. This bsdwiki contains over a hundred pages each with the topics defined by the BSD Certification Group. A PDF in book format is periodically generated from this wiki content (which is converted to LaTeX). To contribute, please join at http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/ The book is mostly generic BSD for beginning administrators, but there are a few topics that need some DragonFly-specific attention. If any of you can help, it would be appreciated. Note that this is a short-term project, so no long term commitment is needed. And also any content in this new wiki is appropriately licensed and easily re-used by DragonFly.
