Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 23:43:25 +1000 From: jonathan michaels <jon@caamora.com.au> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: dave@allunix.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Roasting Newbies Message-ID: <19991008234325.A5341@caamora.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19991008053729.C44391@mpp.pro-ns.net>; from Mike Pritchard on Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 05:37:29AM -0500 References: <199910071346.NAA19666@web1.aps-services.com> <199910072120.RAA25826@blackhelicopters.org> <19991008053729.C44391@mpp.pro-ns.net>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 05:37:29AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 05:20:45PM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: > > IMHO, tensions on the FreeBSD lists are running at their greatest > > level since... oh, I'd say mid-96, when I first subscribed to > > -questions. > > > > If a "FreeBSD newbies info page" will help, then I'm all for it. I > > don't see what sort of "ramifications" it could have, other than to > > (perhaps) reduce some of the stress all around. > > If we add a "newusers" web document, then how about 1 or 2 "newusers" > on-line manual pages as well. I'm thinking something along the lines > of newusers.7 (misc documentation), and newusers.8 (sys admin docs). > We can setup the default install /etc/motd to mention these documents > in the hope that they will be read. And maybe mention them elsewhere > in some of the install documentation, and other places. > > If someone gives me the text, I'll be sure that it gets converted > to our current man page style somehow (either by me, or someone > I con...err, convince to do it :-). I'm sure given quality text, > we can find someone to convert it to docbook format, and I can > probably do that, too, if no one else steps up to do that. see what sue blake <sue@welearn.com.au> has produced and posts regularly, every saterday from memory in, for and the education of how beginners, and where they can find help. it is posted to freebsd-newbies, which sue does a good job moderating. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia ===========================================================<jon@caamora.com.au> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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