Bug 32002

Summary: new FAQ: what hardware to buy
Product: Documentation Reporter: Michael W Lucas <mwlucas>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Bruce A. Mah <bmah>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Michael W Lucas 2001-11-15 13:20:00 UTC 
If anyone actually reads the FAQ before asking questions, this might
help.

How-To-Repeat: 
Sit on -questions or -mobile for a while.
Comment 1 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-15 17:08:13 UTC 
If memory serves me right, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org wrote:

> +           <para>This is discussed continually on the FreeBSD mailing
> +             lists.  Since hardware changes so quickly, however, we
> +             expect this.  We <emphasis>still</emphasis> strongly
> +             recommend that you search the mailing list
> +             <ulink URL="http://www.freebsd.org/search/#mailinglists">
> +             archives</ulink> before asking about the latest and
> +             greatest hardware.  Chances are a discussion about the
> +             type of hardware you're looking for took place just last
> +             week.</para>

Hardware list in the release documentation?

Bruce.
Comment 2 Michael W Lucas 2001-11-15 17:28:24 UTC 
On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 09:08:13AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org wrote:
> 
> > +           <para>This is discussed continually on the FreeBSD mailing
> > +             lists.  Since hardware changes so quickly, however, we
> > +             expect this.  We <emphasis>still</emphasis> strongly
> > +             recommend that you search the mailing list
> > +             <ulink URL="http://www.freebsd.org/search/#mailinglists">
> > +             archives</ulink> before asking about the latest and
> > +             greatest hardware.  Chances are a discussion about the
> > +             type of hardware you're looking for took place just last
> > +             week.</para>
> 
> Hardware list in the release documentation?

I was kind of hoping docs/30202 would be committed or rejected, which
would make this easier to be more correct.

-- 
Michael Lucas
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Comment 3 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-26 01:12:56 UTC 
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This PR is somewhat related to docs/30202, which apparently I now own, 
so I'll take this one too.
Comment 4 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-26 01:59:41 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed, with some minor changes motivated by your PR docs/30202. 
Thanks!