Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:44:52 -0500 From: chris@tourneyland.com To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tasks for junior documentation hackers! Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990923224452.0088d180@mail.9netave.net> In-Reply-To: <19990923223202.C854@mithrandr.moria.org>
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I'd like to do something like 'Administering a student server'. I'm making a jump to FreeBSD from Windows, and trying to administer a little 3-5 node network off my ADSL line. I don't think that currently people like me are as well served as possible by the documentation (or culture) that's out there. For example, when I posted to the questions list about how to do name serving, I think every single response told me to Buy The O'Reilly Book (I'm surprised BTOB hasn't been hallowed by acronymity along with RTFM). When I said "Geez, do I really have to read a 500 page book to learn how to do DNS for my puny network?", a lot of people got mad at me for being lazy and ignorant. But come on! That's just an example. In general, I'd like to tackle this and other subjects to come up with a "How To Become A FreeBSD Administrator Of A Small Home Network When You Don't Know A Damn Thing About Unix" guide/handbook/whatever. Does that sound ok? - Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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