From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 09:33:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A3416A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp05.web.de [217.72.192.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B59243D55 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from platanthera@web.de) Received: from [217.225.251.252] (helo=liza.hacienda.herti) by smtp.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (WEB.DE 4.101 #91) id 1BFyC4-0006C8-00 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:33:57 +0200 From: platanthera To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:40:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200404200142.21458.goreBOFH@comcast.net> <20040420073513.GA21143@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <20040420073513.GA21143@abigail.blackend.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404201840.04418.platanthera@web.de> Sender: platanthera@web.de Subject: user-opinion poll?! [was: Would this be useful?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 16:33:59 -0000 On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:35, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0400, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > > Hi list, this is my first message here, but I'll get to the point; > > I really like writing documentation for the installation of OSs > > sometimes, and I think a lot of newbies to *NIX find Free BSD hard to > > install, the same people think that way about Slackware Linux too, and I > > did write a nice tutorial on Slackware that was step by step, and even > > told you how many times to push which button to install it. > > [...] > > Did you really read > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html ? it would be really hard to create a better installation guide .-) I'd like to suggest to do an user-opinion poll to find out what FreeBSD users actually think about the existing documentation and where additions or improvements are most urgently desired. maybe this could motivate users like me, who could imagine to write some kind of documentation but don't know exactly what is really needed. best regards