From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Mar 21 22:51:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16653 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 22:51:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA16648 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 1998 22:51:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kaput@whoever.com) Received: from whoever.com (oooooo@aeiusrE-27.aei.ca [206.186.204.227]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA07178; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 01:50:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3514B3CF.7C886A81@whoever.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 01:46:39 -0500 From: KapuT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: Project for newbies References: <35148CCD.7CB64E84@whoever.com> <19980322172115.20462@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Its simple, we can write a manual-- who will profit of our experiancies and trouble with admin and command. A real newbie's manual, not made by advanced user who dont remember how feel a newbie when he see Login: hehehehe So, just a project by newbie for newbie. And with that project, we can learn a lot. And I insist, for "no background---real newbie---lamer for some admin" user :-) and printable KapuT #BSD-Help undernet Sue Blake wrote: > On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 11:00:13PM -0500, KapuT wrote: > > Ok, now, we are talking a lot, I will resume. > > Has newbie, we find than FreeBSD was not so documented, and there is a > > special lack of documentation for newbies. Not talking of hardware > > doc... > > > > We also find than Advanced User have no time for us ;-) > > > > And we find than there was no journal, the only sources of news is > > http://www.ca.freebsd.org/newsflash.html > > > > ***And someone know how many people run FreeBSD??????*** > > > > We have also find that it was boring to do comparaison of BSD and Linux > > :-) > > > > And there is no *real* page about FUG or User Group... > > > > And as I can read, we want to do something, so lets start a project in > > HTML, about BSD. Like a *printable* (because reading a manual on the > > web is hard :-/ ) manual-->WE know why we dont understand and how to > > explain it the more simply. So if we start a project like that, we will > > also know more thing :-) > > I'm not sure what you have in mind. Are you thinking of writing stuff for > newbies to add to the FreeBSD documentation, or do you want to make them > change it, or do you want to set up some documentation somewhere else away > from the FreeBSD site? > > Of course the main point is getting the stuff written, but there are > different ways to do it that will get you different kinds of help. > It depends on what you want. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > find / -name "*.conf" |more > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- *************************** kaput@whoever.com www.aei.ca/~malartre/ ICQ #4224434 IRCNet #quebec #wage #mid Undernet #FreeBSD Windows95 Unix-Version FreeBSD-2.2.6 *************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message