From owner-freebsd-doc Tue May 7 20: 5:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0FF37B400 for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 20:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a083.otenet.gr [212.205.215.83]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4834XDi012255; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:04:35 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4834XaK008330; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:04:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.3/8.12.2/Submit) id g4834Rft008329; Wed, 8 May 2002 06:04:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 06:04:27 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Stijn Hoop Cc: Michael Lucas , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free Book Chapter for Doc Repo Message-ID: <20020508030427.GB8150@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020507074002.A27194@blackhelicopters.org> <20020507134253.K58355@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020507134253.K58355@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-05-07 13:42, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:40:02AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > > At long last, my FreeBSD book is nearing completion. In the grand > > tradition of these things, I'd like to place a chapter in the doc > > repo. > > ... > > The question is, which chapter? I have a couple of ideas, but am > > interested in ideas from others. > > Here's mine: > > > 22 FreeBSD in the Office -- misc desktop stuff > > I think this will fill a gap in the existing documentation, and might > switch some people over to using FreeBSD. Amen. It is a common complaint that UNIX has to face that desktop use of a UNIX system is arcane, cryptic, difficult and hard in many ways. If a chapter like this helps a bit in showing that it is possible to have an elegant, clean, useful desktop on a UNIX machine, then by all means, I say go for it. - Giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message