Wiki structure

[Gerard]

The wiki has unfortunately been neglected for a while so it's time to give it a push now. I have drafted a new structure for the wiki.

Can you please have a look at it and give me feedback as to what you want to see changed or added.

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Introduction
1. Why PC-BSD
2. History
3. What is FreeBSD
4. Other BSD’s
5. How FreeBSD differs from Windows

Pre-Installation
1. Minimum Hardware Requirements
2. Step-by-step installation guide
3. Drive Partitioning
4. Getting PC-BSD
5. Burn ISO Image to disc
6. Use VMWare Player Image

Installing and booting
1. Installation Guide
2. Dual booting (GAG / Grub)
3. Trouble Shooting
* Fix Master Boot Record
* LBA etc

Post-Installation
1. User Administration
2. Software (installation, update, remove)
* PBI
* Ports and Packages – short explanation & link to FBSD handbook

Exploring PC-BSD
1. Files / Directories / Drives
2. The Desktop (desktop, icons, panel)
3. Surfing the internet (Konqueror, Firefox, Opera)
4. IRC & Email
5. Audio (CDs, DVDs, radio stations, sound level)
6. Video (KMPlayer)
7. Office Applications (Editors, KOffice / OpenOffice)
8. Games
9. Graphics and Drawing

Configuring your System / Hardware
1. PC-BSD Control Centre

2. Personalise PC-BSD
* Change wallpaper
* Change language
* Change Look ‘n’ Feel
- Background
- Colours
- Fonts
- Icons
- Panels
- Screensaver
- Splash Screen
- Style
- Taskbar
- Theme Manager
- Window behaviour
- Window Decoration
- SuperKaramba

3. Drives
* Hard drive
* CD/DVD drive
* USB flash drives

4. Graphics
* NVIDIA / ATI
* Screen Resolution
* X-org

5. Network, WIFI and PPP

6. Internet
* Java
* Flash

7. Multimedia
* Codecs

8. Printing

9. Sound

10. Keyboard and Mouse

11. Laptops

12. Scanning

Advanced Configuration
1. Wine
2. KQemu
3. Compile a new Kernel
4. Backing up your system
5. Tuning PC-BSD
6. Securing & hardening PC-BSD
 Antivirus
 Firewall

Getting More Help
1. Forums
2. Mailing List
3. IRC

Useful Links

How you can help us
1. Donations
2. Buy from PC-BSD online shop
3. Forums
4. Wiki
5. Bittorent Seeding
6. Reports Bugs
7. Help spread the word

Developers Guide
1. Source Code
2. Creating PBI’s
3. Resources
4. PC-BSD Tools

Frequently Asked Questions

Definitions and Terminology


You can also give me feedback on gerard_AT_pcbsd_DOT_org

[Charles]

I can write a chapter :roll:

[TerryP]

Assign me a chapter, give a little guidence on what you want it to be like, and plenty of time to write it and I'd be glad to help in any capacity my time permits.

I'm more or less a late night/weekend person. -> Family around/awake can make it hard to get work done consistantly.

[antik]

Introduction
Frequently Asked Questions

1. Why PC-BSD
2. History
3. What is FreeBSD
4. Other BSD’s
5. How FreeBSD differs from Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

Pre-Installation
4. Getting PC-BSD
5. Burn ISO Image to disc
1. Minimum Hardware Requirements
3. Drive Partitioning
6. Use VMWare Player Image

Installing and booting
1. Installation Guide
2. Step-by-step installation guide
2. Dual booting (boot0, GAG, Grub)
3. Trouble Shooting
* Fix Master Boot Record
* LBA etc

Post-Installation
1. User Administration
2. Software (installation, update, remove)
* PBI
* Ports and Packages & short explanation & link to FBSD handbook
3. Keyboard layouts, languages, timezone.

Exploring PC-BSD
1. Files / Directories / Drives
2. The Desktop (desktop, icons, panel)
3. Surfing the internet (Konqueror, Firefox, Opera)
4. IRC & Email
5. Audio (CDs, DVDs, radio stations, sound level)
6. Video (KMPlayer)
7. Office Applications (Editors, KOffice / OpenOffice)
8. Games
9. Graphics and Drawing

Configuring your System / Hardware
1. PC-BSD Control Centre

2. Personalise PC-BSD
* Change wallpaper
* Change language
* Change Look ‘n’ Feel
- Background
- Colours
- Fonts
- Icons
- Panels
- Screensaver
- Splash Screen
- Style
- Taskbar
- Theme Manager
- Window behaviour
- Window Decoration
- SuperKaramba

3. Drives
* Hard drive
* CD/DVD drive
* USB flash drives

4. Graphics
* NVIDIA / ATI
* Screen Resolution
* X.org

5. Network, WIFI and PPP

6. Internet
* Java
* Flash

7. Multimedia
* Codecs
Multimedia Players (Kmplayer, amaroK, Kaffeine)

8. Printing
Network printing
9. Sound

10. Keyboard and Mouse

11. Laptops

12. Scanning

Advanced Configuration
1. Wine
2. KQemu
3. Compile a new Kernel and update userland
4. Backing up and restore your system
5. Tuning PC-BSD (sysctl)
6. Securing & hardening PC-BSD
Antivirus
Firewall
Securelevels
Jail


Getting More Help
1. Forums
2. Mailing List
3. IRC
4. paid support

Useful Links

How you can help us
1. Donations
2. Buy from PC-BSD online shop
3. Forums
4. Wiki
5. Bittorent Seeding
6. Reports Bugs
7. Help spread the word

Developers Guide
1. Source Code
2. Creating PBI's
3. Resources
4. PC-BSD Tools



Definitions and Terminology


You can also give me feedback on gerard@pcbsd.org

Red are unnecessary.

[Charles]

Red are unnecessary.

I think they are essential actually 8)

[dracheflieger]

Hi Gerard,

I would split this 4. IRC & Email .

I use both Thunderbird and Evolution here and have yet to use IRC in PC-BSD. I do use it on rare occasions in Win and will use it if someone will post a meet time and I'm awake.

[TerryP]

maybe make it "Chat & E-Mail" or vice versa? Or a section to each.

Antik, Donations never hurt a project, if I could I would but I'm not even making a paycheck any more...

Language should be covered in installtion but what if they want to after worlds? Wall paper channg fits into the entire Change Look N Feel unit. I.E. You can learn it by LOOKING. If ya gonna document it ya may as well doa decent job :-)

Done right the whole project could create a doc for "Desktop" people at the level of what the beloved handbook & man pages are for nearly everything you don't want to know :-)

[L1mP]

Hey Gerard,

As you know, I'am volunteer.

Niklaas