Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:47:59 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Moving chapters around in the Handbook Message-ID: <20010719134759.B79615@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <20010716185834.D77647@meow.osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010716185834.D77647@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
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-On [20010717 04:30], Murray Stokely (murray@FreeBSD.org) wrote: >I would also like to move "Chapter 13. The X Window System" from "Part >II System Administration" to the end of "Part I Getting Started". > >I think that making a user read 13 chapters before learning how to >start KDE is going to scare people off. Depends on what you are aiming for. I continue to hear people say that FreeBSD is meant [and always has been aimed at] the server market. Which in my eyes would not qualify moving X11 to Chapter I a valid option. If you aim at the average Joe Schmoe home user, it might make sense, although care should be taken to avoid delving into one particular window environment too much. At least in my humble opinion. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ The better part of valour is discretion... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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