From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Apr 15 17:45:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14357 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.impulse.net (mail.impulse.net [204.188.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA14255 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@merchantsnet.com) Received: (qmail 5602 invoked from network); 16 Apr 1998 00:45:13 -0000 Received: from sb2-95.impulse.net (HELO 708644668) (204.188.6.95) by mail.impulse.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 1998 00:45:13 -0000 From: "Michael P. Sale" To: "Sue Blake" Cc: Subject: Re: What do newbies want? Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:42:02 -0700 Message-ID: <01bd68d0$78c98180$5f06bccc@708644668> 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 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----Original Message----- From: Sue Blake To: Michael P. Sale Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 2:04 PM Subject: Re: What do newbies want? >On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 12:17:56PM -0700, Michael P. Sale wrote: > >> I have a much smaller, less technical need. Since starting with FreeBSD, I >> have had lots of questions, with good answers, and a few of "go check out >> this URL". Seems there is more than one place to look for FreeBSD docs and >> info. Sometimes even the search on FreeBSD.org is semi painful. I think it >> would be neat if we had one (1) URL that contained all of the official and >> UNOFFICIAL URL's to FreeBSD information. > > >Something like this is very close to being available. It is a list of >the documentation and learning resources that are most useful for newbies, >both on and off line, both FreeBSD-specific and more general material. >We discussed it here a couple of weeks ago and several people offered URLs >and books that they had found helpful. If you have anything you'd like to >suggest be included, please let me know, especially if there is something >elsewhere on the web that I might have overlooked. > >The draft of is web page should be available by the weekend and its >temporary location will be announced here and in FreeBSD-doc. A few days >later it should have a permanent home on the FreeBSD web site, and that URL >will be given in the Newbies FAK. > Great!! I'm sorry I missed the thread. I guess I'll have to go back and check my mbox. :-) I'm looking foward to seeing the site. Mike > >-- > >Regards, > -*Sue*- > >find / -name "*.conf" |more > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message