From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Feb 13 9:50:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pop.andover.net (mail.andover.net [209.192.217.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E38837B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:50:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@guinness.osdn.com [209.192.217.152]) by pop.andover.net (8.11.0/8.9.2) with ESMTP id f1DHo9K26563; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:50:09 -0500 Received: (from jim@localhost) by guinness.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f1DHo8q00569; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:50:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:50:08 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: Seth Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web page suggestion Message-ID: <20010213125007.B375@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: <20010213104922.A70178@psychotic.aberrant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010213104922.A70178@psychotic.aberrant.org>; from seth@psychotic.aberrant.org on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:49:22AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 at 10:49:22 -0500, Seth wrote: > This suggestion has probably been debated ad nauseum already, but I'd > like to make it anyway on the off chance that nobody's ever heard it > before :) > > One of the hardest things for people new to FreeBSD to do is locate > the installation disks & instructions. This sounds strange to those > of us who are familiar with the web site, but the images are three > clicks away from the main page, and the links are embedded in stuff > that the impatient would-be user won't want to read. I can't tell > you the number of times I've pointed people to the freebsd.org web > site and then had to hand-hold them through locating the floppies and > imaging instructions. More than once, I've heard "if it's this much > trouble to install, how hard is it going to be to USE?" If they think clicking through 3 links to get to is "too much trouble" they shouldn't be using FreeBSD. If they can't be bothered to click the very easily labeled links, they're surely not going to bother reading any of the install docs and will have an installation experience similar to trying to ram their head through a brick wall. - jim -- jim mock O|S|D|N open source development network http://soupnazi.org/ http://osdn.com/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message