Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:45:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: and if -questions doesn't work? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011300827190.25314-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <20001201155659.8535.qmail@web1103.mail.yahoo.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> That's a fair response, but doesn't do much for > FreeBSD advocacy. I can't help but think that > marketshare (read Micro$oft) is obtained by making it > easy to find help; configuration for the lazy, if you > will. Maybe I misread the goals of the community. Agreed, the problem that many people don't realize is that FreeBSD is just now becoming main-stream enough that it NEEDS the documentation to go along with it. Unluckily, the core team and committers don't have the time to write documentation, leaving it instead to the user-land people to do. We as newbies can contribute heavily in this area for other newbies. My attempts at http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd have been a cumilation of hand written notes and such that I've made over the last 4 years. This is the exact place Linux was 1.5-2 years ago, which is where FreeBSD has always been in the "acceptance curve." > I can't choose a side here; I respect an OS or > application that requires you to learn it, to > understand how it works before you can run it > effectively, but that requirement seems to relegate > FreeBSD to a hobby until I become an expert...and > since it's a hobby, that may never happen. It merely happens more slowly... I've had my domain name up and running for 6 months now, and I'm trying to branch out to hosting other domains for friends and such just to get the experience... it's been a long road, but I've helped others get FreeBSD installed. Written small tidbits of documentation, etc... :) Hopefully some day I'll be able to contribute even more. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0011300827190.25314-100000>