From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 14 17:25: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9340937B626 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:25:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.70.102]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA4A69; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:27:18 -0700 Message-ID: <39982B63.D3ADCFE9@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:24:51 +0000 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason La Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for Documentation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jason La wrote: > As a newbie, it took a while for me to understand what a "server" was. I > started out thinking that it was a physical machine. I didn't find any place > that explained to me what a software server was.. like the X Server... > SUGGESTION: Please take the time to explain some basic background or > understanding so you doin't loose us. Really basic information like is very useful, but I don't think it belongs in the FBSD documentation. The FreeBSD docs should be about FreeBSD and included software. "Server" is a very basic term, and I don't think the docs need to cover it. A glossary with basic terms like this defined will more than double the size of the handbook. FreeBSD should have complete documentation for newbies to the system, but at the same time I think it should demand some level of computer literacy. -- David Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message