From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 01:09:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA07263 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lionking.org (blacker-99.caltech.edu [131.215.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA07258 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:09:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from btman@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: from localhost (btman@localhost) by lionking.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA01099 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:09:01 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: lionking.org: btman owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:09:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Tiemann X-Sender: btman@lionking.org To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Install *actually* friendly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Dexnation Holodream wrote: > In plain english, sure, we could cater to a little bit more to the > novice user, but they're still going to run into some very basic > problems. Now, if we spruce up the documentation, then, if they're > smart enough to RTFM, and we put a few tutorials in, we'd be 10x > better off, having created a set of slightly more clueful users. Well put. I for one would cast my vote for avoiding the Microsoft/AOL ideal of making things so blindingly one-click easy that even people who can't drive or fry an egg can get on the Net, in favor of the "Teach a man to fish" principle. There's no need to hand-hold in the implementation phase when a tutorial will do the job-- and maybe teach somebody something along the way. Sure, that does mean the tutorials *do* have to be written, and written well. But thus far FreeBSD has stuck quite well to these principles, and therein lies a lot of its strength. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message