On 10/04/17 16:39, Ernie Luzar wrote:
Here's my take on that.
The future direction has already been decided by the FreeBSD leaders 2
years ago with their development of a better pkg system.
[putolin]
Don't let the few old school die hearts who are afraid of any change and
make the most noise influence you. There will always be edge case user
who think their needs out weight what is best for the group.
So what you are really saying is Go to hell old farts we don't need you
here. We are not going to listen to you as you are too old to know
anything. You are old and stupid.
It is looking like I will need to move away from FreeBSD if that is
really what is being accomplished here.
Remember that your updated book will become a bible for many years and
many readers. Don't include items that are now on the edge of being
replaced.
Another candidate is JAILs IE: the old way of jail definition was in
rc.conf the new way being jail.conf. The jail.conf method was
introduction was at RELEASE 9.0 and here its 11.1 and still the old
school users fight to retain both ways. Hoping that with 12.0, support
for jail definition in rc.conf will be totally removed.
One last though. The problem with the Freebsd handbook is that it reads
like a list of reminder notes. The reader is expected to already have a
well defined understanding of the subject being read about. The past 2
years a great amount of effort has gone into bring the handbook up to
date with the current status of the operating system. But it is a very
far cry from a teaching aid.
Please take the time to rework the original "Absolute FreeBSD" content
into something that is usable as a teaching book. You must assume that
the only thing the reader knows about Freebsd is how to spell the word
Freebsd and build the content from there.
Good luck.
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