Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:13:26 -0500 From: Dylan Carlson <absinthe@pobox.com> To: Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@fort-knox.rave.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should common/traditional Unix SA tasks be documented? Message-ID: <E16UHPM-0006JK-00@swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201260026330.5899-100000@fort-knox.rave.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201260026330.5899-100000@fort-knox.rave.org>
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> less) I still 'find' commands I didn't know the existance of, or at least > I kinda forgot about them. Lost month I discovered 'cal', for instance. > Although it wasn't really the most shocking thing that ever happened to > me, it surprised me a bit to still discover something I didn't know or > remember was there. > I concur. Right now the Handbook assumes a base of knowledge that most newbies are not going to have, and will be painful for them to get. I'd be willing to contribute some novice-level documentation. This would certainly help the "I'm dumping Windows, help me get started with FreeBSD" crowd. Right now, a lot of sites exist for Linux newbies; thus many new-to-Unix users are getting hooked into the chaotic Linuxy way of administration. This is a great opportunity for us to showcase FreeBSD, particularly because we're a bit more solid and elegant in the area of administration and organization than Linux generally is. It would be nice to help people along in learning (really) basic stuff. Some might disagree with me on this, but I think it'd also be helpful to have a "Rosetta Stone" type document to help people who are coming from other *nix platforms a shortcut to commands and syntax to do relatively same things they did on whatever OS they're currently used to. vmstat, for example, varies wildly from platform to platform. Things like this can make FreeBSD disorienting at first for people. Something is better than nothing. I'd be happy to contribute some pages towards this. If a TOC/outline gets built, count me in for at least a section or two. Cheers, -- Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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