From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 13:27:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2329137C25C for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:27:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA17525; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:27:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdX17523; Thu Aug 3 06:27:04 2000 Message-ID: <01a201bffcc0$9f2c6370$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Neil Blakey-Milner" Cc: "Steve Fagan" , , "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <014e01bffcb8$7d46fed0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000802215841.A36147@mithrandr.moria.org> Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:31:19 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As a documentor for the FDP, I have to say that there is no taboo > against any form of coherent documentation, Actually my comment was "For some reason there appears to be a > > taboo in FreeBSD against "step by step" instructions" I have yet to see an official attempt at a "step by step" explanation of anything. The present docs are a dreadful jigsaw puzzle .... its rarely possible to find ALL the info one needs in one place, if indeed the stuff can be found (and comprehended) at all. Certainly FreeBSD docs are better than their linux equivalents, but thats not anything like saying they are good. Think of the situation faced by IT consultants in an average day ...... all the clients want is their application working properly, & no matterhow good FreeBSD is, if its gonna take days to get an answer from wherever they will happily pay out $$$ for a different O/S To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message