From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 14 16:23:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14305 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:23:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14185 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:22:37 GMT (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA27943; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:22:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980415092213.47012@welearn.com.au> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 09:22:13 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: KapuT Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What do newbies want? References: <19980415072144.14144@welearn.com.au> <3533E909.36696386@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <3533E909.36696386@aei.ca>; from KapuT on Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 06:54:01PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ah, KapuT, I thought you'd disappeared! On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 06:54:01PM -0400, KapuT wrote: > 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 I think that's pretty common :-) What exactly would help here? Another tutorial like the one you saw? Books? Any more ideas about how you would like to learn 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! Huh? A real explanation of what? > > 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. > Hey, any hacker (in the good sense of the word... not cracker) read this > mailling-lost? sorry, mailling-list :-) > > Malartre > I need help You need help from a hacker to work out what you want for newbies? :-) What do you need help with? Do you think other newbies need that help and can't find it, or what? More details please :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message