From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jun 30 12:59: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96D2D37BCB9 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:59:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (1Cust175.tnt5.beaverton.or.da.uu.net [63.21.232.175]) by eagle.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23708; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:58:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by luna.osd.bsdi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 419543143; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:58:44 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Scott Flatman Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New User's Handbook Message-ID: <20000630125844.B6144@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Reply-To: jim@FreeBSD.org References: <20000630120608.A5841@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: ; from sf@aracnet.com on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:18:20PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 at 12:18:20 -0700, Scott Flatman wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Jim Mock wrote: > > Howdy folks, > > > > Since sending the last message on the New User's Handbook, I > > haven't gotten *any* replies.. has anyone looked at it? It's > > available at http://soupnazi.org/~jim/FreeBSD/newuser-handbook/ > > > > I'd like to commit it before it gets crufty and/or other folks > > start committing to the chapters that make it up so I don't have to > > go through the whole thing again. > > > > Feedback would be appreciated. > > I like it. > > Short and sweet. Not overwhelming for the beginner. Just enough to > get them started. > > Perhaps a pointer in the Chapter 6 about the FreeBSD mailing lists, > like -questions, for FreeBSD specific help? Good idea. A ``Getting Help'' chapter might be useful here since there really isn't one in the existing handbook anywhere and this ``smaller handbook'' would probably be the one it belongs in when the rest of the existing handbook is split up. - jim -- /* jim mock - berkeley software design, inc - open source division */ /* documentation manager - jim@FreeBSD.org - jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message