Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 07:17:03 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Christopher Martin at Home <psycho@keyworld.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rant: What are we? Message-ID: <19980329071703.21174@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199803281548.QAA09711@mail.keyworld.net>; from Christopher Martin at Home on Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 04:49:44PM %2B0100 References: <199803281548.QAA09711@mail.keyworld.net>
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On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 04:49:44PM +0100, Christopher Martin at Home wrote: > It may be a good idea though to publish diagrammatic representations of the > Unix directory tree for people who are totally new to Unix and a synopsis > of what files are found where and a basic explanation of their functions: > e.g. os kernels, ports, drivers, user related stuff etc. It may also be a > good idea to give a rough explanation on similarities and differences > between the bootstrap process in Unix and DOS/Windows devices (i.e. where > the conf files come in etc.) > > This could be published on the web-site and used as a basic reference for > all the newbies prior to going ahead. That's a great idea! It's an idea about documentation, and, to be fair, it belongs on the freebsd-doc mailing list. If you'd be willing to put that kind of information together then go for it! Let the -doc people know first, in case one of them has already spent the last six months slogging away at the same thing :-) (If you can't do it yourself then you may find someone who is motivated to do what you suggest) Then when it's finished, announce to freebsd-doc that it's ready for review. That's the condensed version. The full details of what to do are in a document that we were asked to review (-newbies people as well as -doc). While it's being reviewed it's at http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/dp/docproj.html Tomorrow the final version will be found at http://www.freebsd.org/docproj.html where it will replace a different, less informative document which is there now. Feedback was supposed to be sent to freebsd-doc (whether subscribed or not) and I haven't seen much from newbies. That might just mean that newbies are interested enough to look at documentation that is written for them, but still a little nervous about speaking up, even to say "yes I like it". I hope that's all it is, because I know several newbies would very interested in the contents of that document. > Do not get the false idea that I know what I am speaking about. I stand to > be corrected or directed to a site which may already have this up for > reading. I don't know of anything that covers all that you have mentioned, but you can get some interesting info by typing 'man hier'. That man page clears up a lot of the mysteries about which directories are where and why. Some introductory unix material might cover what you want too. This week I'm putting together a list of resources that newbies have found worth looking at. More suggestions for what could be on that list are welcome. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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