From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jul 21 10:29:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow025o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E811C37B406; Sat, 21 Jul 2001 10:29:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org ([62.31.80.67]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:29:15 +0100 Message-ID: <3B59BBEA.3060600@cream.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:29:14 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Alexey Zelkin , Murray Stokely , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving chapters around in the Handbook References: <20010716185834.D77647@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <20010719134759.B79615@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <3B57A50B.9010101@cream.org> <20010720081706.H79615@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010720172437.A6118@ark.cris.net> <20010721145108.N79615@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > That is the issue. > > Is that document written for the end-user or for an administrator? But the end-user is the administrator of their box! ;-) In my opinion, the documentation is written for people who are trying to get things done, reguardless of they are trying to do it in a server or desktop environment. After all, many of the tasks they have to perform are the same anyway. And an inexperienced server administrator needs exactly the same level of hand-holding and explanation as an inexperienced end-user setting up their workstation for the first time. Returning to the question of where the X installation chapter should be, I believe it should be near the start as it is part of the process of getting the system working, IMHO. And I guess we could add a comment to the introduction reminding server administrators that they probably don't need or want X at all. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message