Re: Guide: Switching from Linux to NetBSD

[Mark Weinem <markweinem%aol.de@localhost>]

Hi Julian,


> The content is meant to be redundant.

This is another highway to "Unmaintainable Documentation Hell" ;-)

"Don't Repeat Youreslf", "Duplicate Is Evil" or "Single Source Of Truth" 
will help us to keep the documentation maintainable.


> But that was my intention: Provide a central point where you
> can read once [...]

That's the purpose of the Guide. It doesn't deal with specific 
differences so it's useful for any OS-convert.


> So, it does not describe any technical details about how to really switch
> (installing NetBSD or migrating services), that's out of the scope of the
> article.

Why not? That would be a concrete benefit!


> the reader of this article should be capable of switching or creating a plan
> on how to switch after reading it.

Should be possible after studying the Guide - independent from reader's 
OS-background.


> I have fixed some issues, you can look up the updated article at
> http://komkon2.de/switchinglinux.xml.

Looks much better now:

http://www.NetBSD.org/~weinem/switchinglinux.html


Best regards, Mark