Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 07:22:14 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: "Sue Blake" <sue@welearn.com.au>, <freebsd-docs@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Kathy Quinlan" <katinka@magestower.com> Subject: Re: (was) I'm leaving, now something like "anti official docs rant" :) Message-ID: <00af01c0dcbb$f2fa2a10$0300a8c0@oracle> References: <002b01c0db54$e0febaa0$5599ca3f@disappointment> <20010513171444.E26123@welearn.com.au> <00f401c0db7e$ff3ca2a0$fe00a8c0@kat.lan> <20010513122623.I97034@lpt.ens.fr> <20010514084709.A68348@welearn.com.au> <024b01c0dc05$b1314fc0$0300a8c0@oracle> < <20010514135309.B48638@lpt.ens.fr>
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> I just subscribed too, for the first time. I will try and > contribute, at least to whatever I'm comfortable with... > Well I guess its like we say in OZ ..... "avagoyamug" ..... which for the benefit of those not from the land of the pacific peso means something like "nothing ventured, nothing gained" > It seems to me that back issues of Daemonnews FreeBSDzine, etc have > lots of useful articles which are rather hard to locate for beginners. > So one thing I have in mind is make an index for them (with links to > the original articles), classified by subject, and perhaps with short > summaries. Think it's a good idea? > As I see it, the folk yelling "all the info you need is already available" are partly correct, however its spread out over an area many times that of the Sahara so to all intents & purposes it might as well be on mars (specially considering that much of the info is in that language anyway !!). My idea is to collect just the snippets immediately relevant to a given objective & distill those into a single "task based" document To use my "Pedantic FreeBSD" as an example ... I needed a document that walked someone unfamiliar with unix through installation / configuration as a gateway / router / mailserver. Obviously this needed a fair amount of ppp setup info since thats always been a female canine to setup. Now to follow the "official" track would require a newbie to devote several weeks at least familiarizing themselves with a million subjects, most of which are virtually irrelevant to the task at hand & thus adding to their already "panic stages" disorientation. Remember the primary object here is to get a FreeBSD box running the ppp connection to the ISP & sharing that with a LAN .... its NOT to turn a beginner into an "all knowing, all seeing expert" in two weeks. Remember the old story .... "its pretty difficult to remember your primary objective was to drain the swamp when you are up to your a**e in alligators!!" > For some things like XFree, the linux howtos are definitely a useful > resource too. Yeah I guess .... I'm not exactly a fan of anything linux (for a start I absolutely refuse to indulge in that facing California / chanting 'Our Linus' bit & I don't believe that Comrade Gates is the Antichrist), however the XFree thing did apparently originate there so maybe thats a good place to "pirate" some stuff :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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