From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 3 0:32:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20D0D14F7A for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 00:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dpilgrim@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 16827 invoked by alias); 3 Apr 1999 03:03:55 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG@fixme Received: (qmail 16806 invoked by uid 0); 3 Apr 1999 03:03:55 -0000 Received: from fdsl89.ptld.uswest.net (HELO uswest.net) (216.161.80.89) by ptldpop1.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 3 Apr 1999 03:03:55 -0000 Message-ID: <370584E6.796DD2A5@uswest.net> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 19:03:02 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim Organization: Neatly stacked heaps of digital chaos X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Donald Wilde , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Adovcacy] References: <37052E56.D243D4F6@thuntek.net> <37053C70.A99BEB29@uswest.net> <370540BF.C67A5442@thuntek.net> <37054D71.A05B12B4@uswest.net> <19990403115350.S413@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: >On Friday, 2 April 1999 at 15:06:25 -0800, Nocturne wrote: >> As for stepping on toes, I can see how this project might undermine >> the drive to get the Handbook and FAQs updated and revised, but I >> think that when it comes to newbies, the more documentation options >> one has at her/his disposal the better. I know people who've read the >> Handbook and remain totally lost. Then they read man pages and a 60 >> Lb. UNIX Manual(tm) and suddenly it makes perfect sense to them. >> Nonetheless, I'll be sure to be careful, this has to work. > >OK, I can agree that the handbook could be clearer on a lot of >issues. But why use that as a reason for starting a different effort? >It seems to me that you could gain a whole lot by fixing the >description in the handbook. And yes, you'll be welcome there :-) I think Don Wilde said it best when he said the "handbook tries to go too many places." -- dpilgrim@uswest.net /\ / __ Our lies are merely the gryph@mindless.com / \/OC/URNE truth of another world ICQ: 29880099 Death is not a kill -9, just a DALnet: anim0s make world and shutdown -r now PGPKey available To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message