From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 6 7:41:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A55937B503 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 07:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03156 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:42:55 -0500 Message-Id: <200010061442.JAA03156@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:44:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) In-reply-to: References: <001501c02e4a$b42bc980$2c0100c0@goalieusa.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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