Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:42:02 -0700 From: Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New User's Handbook Part III Message-ID: <20000723234202.A13054@luna.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000711001955.A923@luna.osd.bsdi.com>; from jim@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:19:55AM -0700 References: <20000710121458.A43105@luna.osd.bsdi.com> <20000711065351.A5228@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <20000711001955.A923@luna.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 at 00:19:55 -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 at 06:53:51 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:14:58PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > > > After implementing most of your suggestions, and fixing a few > > > errors that were pointed out to me, I've rebuilt and uploaded the > > > New User's Handbook > > > <http://soupnazi.org/~jim/FreeBSD/newuser-handbook/>. > > > > Hmm-m-m-m. > > > > I dunno. It kinda reads like the "FreeBSD Advertising Ourselves" > > Handbook. It's like it's targetted at people who haven't installed > > FreeBSD yet, or made the decision to, rather than people who have > > installed FreeBSD and are now trying to work out what to do with it. > > True. The content is from the existing handbook though, so we probably > oughta re-evaluate that to :-) > > > Chapter 6 is the most "new user-ish" bit there. > > > > It looks like I'm going to be around for the O'Reilly docs session, > > and a couple of days after that. Maybe we could get together at WC > > on Monday or Tuesday and brainstorm around it for a bit? > > Sounds like a plan to me. Since this didn't happen, we might as well do this here :-) As far as content goes, what did you have in mind? The stuff there just came from the existing handbook (as the porters-handbook did), but I'm willing to rewrite/split stuff up -- it'd be good to have some sort of direction when doing so though. If anyone else has ideas on this, I'd like to hear those too. - jim -- /* jim mock - berkeley software design, inc - open source division */ /* documentation manager - jim@FreeBSD.org - jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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