From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jan 14 13:33:26 2001 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 AD16237B400 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:33:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25708; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:32:42 +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 smtpdy25706; Mon Jan 15 07:32:40 2001 Message-ID: <004b01c07e73$021f04e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: , , References: Subject: Re: new documentaion Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:43:15 +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 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I certainly wouldn't say that ...... I definitely prefer to use docs from the likes of bsdvault.net & freebsddiary.org to either of the "official" sources since they are written from a newbie viewpoint with infinitely more attention given to filling in the steps missing in documentation written by experts. Just the fact that more & more "user-friendly / newbie" sites are popping up is in itself a clear indication that despite recent improvements the official versions are still missing the boat to some extent. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason La" To: ; ; Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 7:18 AM Subject: Re: new documentaion > >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