From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 19 4:48:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from amsmta03-svc.chello.nl (mail-out.chello.nl [213.46.240.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5CE337B40E; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 04:48:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org ([62.163.96.180]) by amsmta03-svc.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.03.02.00 201-232-124 license dd4a379df8e387594186908c65258374) with ESMTP id <20010719114805.HNVD15737.amsmta03-svc@daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org>; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:48:05 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.chronias.ninth-circle.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6JBm0g79823; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:48:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 13:47:59 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Murray Stokely Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Moving chapters around in the Handbook Message-ID: <20010719134759.B79615@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <20010716185834.D77647@meow.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010716185834.D77647@meow.osd.bsdi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises 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 [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