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mfro 4 hours ago

I will say the FreeBSD handbook is such a breath of fresh air compared to other OS documentation. Everything is easy to find and well formatted. Same goes for the OS internals themselves. It's just a cohesive project altogether.

IgorPartola 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Back in college I spent some time translating portions of it to Russian. It was super easy to work with the project on that. I honestly have no idea if any of my contributions are still a part of it but I am really glad I did that.

riffraff 4 hours ago | parent [-]

same experience for me, I translated a few chapter to Italian while in university, I learned a lot and the translation project was super well run.

dev_l1x_be 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're seeing the benefit of the cathedral model right there: a centralized, architected approach yields unified documentation, whereas the bazaar is inherently fragmented.