From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jan 14 13:18:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f130.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C439F37B69C for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:18:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:18:40 -0800 Received: from 64.29.224.29 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:18:40 GMT X-Originating-IP: [64.29.224.29] Reply-To: jasonla@pobox.com From: "Jason La" To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au, GLOBALLINK2001@aol.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new documentaion Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:18:40 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jan 2001 21:18:40.0663 (UTC) FILETIME=[9110A270:01C07E6F] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From what I have seen, the documentations that exists is too shallow and un-uniform to be of any use to newbies. Only the handbook and Complete FreeBSD seem to offer anything that is complete. >From: "Doug Young" >To: , >Subject: Re: new documentaion >Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:34:44 +1000 > >There are already quite a few current tutorials ..... freebsdvault.net, >freebsddiary.org, >& mostgraveconcern are three sites that come to mind that have extremely >valuable user-friendly documentation, tutorials etc. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: >To: >Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 11:32 AM >Subject: new documentaion > > > > Hello, > > I have been using freebsd for awhile now, and I have noticed >that > > much of it's documentaion is quite dated, I believe documentaion is a >key > > part of support, especially for a newbie. Also there are many topics not > > covered, I think this could all be changed. There are many of us on this >list > > right now who have enough knowledge to write good, up to date tutorials. > > Anything that you think you know well about freebsd you could write a > > tutorial about. Before long I think we would have a nice, cuurect, >collection > > of tutorials. > > > > I am going to be writing many tutorials in the next few weeks if > > anyone wants to help me out, or write some too, that would be awesome. > > > > > > Thanks alot guys, later > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message