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Date:      Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:54:01 -0400
From:      KapuT <malartre@aei.ca>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What do newbies want?
Message-ID:  <3533E909.36696386@aei.ca>
References:  <19980415072144.14144@welearn.com.au>

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Sue Blake wrote:

> What would make things easier and more pleasant for people who try FreeBSD
> for the first time? Is there something you wished for when you started but
> couldn't find? What did you find that you really liked? Are there problems
> that only newbies have, that could be addressed somehow? If you had a magic
> wand, what would you like to see added, removed, or improved?
>

The introduction to unix: from Win95 to Unix

> We did discuss this a bit before but I think it's worth exploring it in more
> depth, now that there's a lot of talk about promoting FreeBSD. It's one
> thing to attract people to FreeBSD, but what else could we be offering them
> once they arrive?
>

A real explanation!

> Newbies are the experts here, so first see how many ideas you can come up
> with. Even if they are impossible ideas they could inspire someone else to
> think of something, so don't hold back. Later on we can pick out the
> important ones and look at how to implement them, but let's just get the
> ideas flowing first.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>         -*Sue*-
>
> find / -name "*.conf" |more

Hey, any hacker (in the good sense of the word... not cracker) read this
mailling-lost? sorry, mailling-list :-)

Malartre
I need help
www.aei.ca/~malartre/
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