Subject: Re: seriousness of this Project
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Postma <peter@pointless.nl>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/08/2005 16:51:44
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:38:00PM +0100, Liam J. Foy wrote:
>
> From my dealings with the www@ team, I have nothing but good
> things to say. They do a very good job in handling any problems or
> updating I wish to be fixed.
>
> However, on another note I would really like to see an improvement
> in the kernel documentation. By that I do not mean internals, I
> simply mean on how new users configure it. Similar to how FreeBSD do
> it:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
>
> I have seen countless times when the problem users can't get
> they're kernel to compile is due to an incorrect config. If the
> options where correctly documented (to a users basic
> understanding, this excludes basic raw comments in the config
> files) it would make it much nicer for newcomers to understand.
>
Most kernel options are actually documented, see options(4).
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Peter Postma