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Subject: new FAQ: what hardware to buy
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>Number:         32002
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       new FAQ: what hardware to buy
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bmah
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 15 05:20:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Nov 25 17:59:41 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Nov 25 18:00:27 PST 2001
>Originator:     Michael Lucas
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
None
>Environment:

yesterday's -doc tree

>Description:

If anyone actually reads the FAQ before asking questions, this might
help.

>How-To-Repeat:

Sit on -questions or -mobile for a while.

>Fix:

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*** 2409,2414 ****
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        </qandaentry>
  
        <qandaentry>
+         <question id="which-hardware-to-get">
+           <para>I want to get a piece of hardware for my FreeBSD
+             system.  Which model/brand/type is best?</para>
+         </question>
+ 
+         <answer>
+           <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>
+ 
+           <para>If you're looking for a laptop, check the
+             FreeBSD-mobile mailing list archives.  Otherwise, you
+             probably want the archives for FreeBSD-questions, or
+             possibly a specific mailing list for a particular hardware
+             type.</para>
+         </answer>
+       </qandaentry>
+ 
+       <qandaentry>
          <question id="supported-hard-drives">
            <para>What kind of hard drives does FreeBSD support?</para>
          </question>


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/32002: new FAQ: what hardware to buy 
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 09:08:13 -0800

 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.
 
 

From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: docs/32002: new FAQ: what hardware to buy
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 12:28:24 -0500

 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
 mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org
 http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
 Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->bmah 
Responsible-Changed-By: bmah 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Nov 25 17:12:56 PST 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
This PR is somewhat related to docs/30202, which apparently I now own, 
so I'll take this one too. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32002 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: bmah 
State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 25 17:59:41 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed, with some minor changes motivated by your PR docs/30202. 
Thanks! 


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32002 
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