Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:44:55 -0500 From: "Charlie Schloemer" <charlie@infoworks.net> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <200010061442.JAA03156@smtp.intop.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001006081952.mj@isy.liu.se> References: <001501c02e4a$b42bc980$2c0100c0@goalieusa.com>
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On 6 Oct 00, at 8:19, Micke Josefsson wrote: > > On 04-Oct-00 Larry Wells wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I, for one, would be a lot less interested in a magazine that catered > > exclusively to newbies. That's what books like the Complete FreeBSD > > book are for. (Not to mention many websites. FreeBSDDiary, Daemon > > News, etc..) I can see a column or article being focused on > > newcomers, but having a BSD magazine solely catering to that > > demographic would be demeaning to those of us who have been advocates > > for years. > > I agree. A purely newbie oriented rag would not attract me. I would like to see > both newbie AND not-so newbie articles, but also columns for the other wonderful > thing you can do with the OS. Let there be colums/tutorials for device driver > writing, hardware interfacing, picoBSD, etc. I recently had great fun with > /dev/ppi interfacing a HD44780 LCD display and modifying the code and see what > actually happened on an attached logic analyzer. > > ---------------------------------- > Michael Josefsson, MSEE > mj@isy.liu.se Would advanced topics in articles really exclude newbies? When I was a newbie, I jumped into plenty of things that were supposed to be over my head. Some of them were, but as newbies habitually meet new and unfamiliar topics head-on, one day they wake up and they're not newbies anymore. :-) The reverse would not be true though: veterans of the OS would still grow weary of learning (again) how to type ls. $0.02 de charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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