From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 14: 2:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE13637B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:02:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA55F9; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:07:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3AAD4788.3F0F353C@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:02:48 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>, Mike Meyer , mij@osdn.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: documentation issues generally References: <046701c0ab3c$c4a66300$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Young wrote: > > Seems like the docs situation is destined to keep going the same route as > present. Its quite obvious that the "official" docs people are more > interested in the systems used to create docs than the content thereof. The > result is that more & more users (recalling their own difficulty with the > official formats) will establish sites like freebsddiary / bsdvault / > mostgraveconcern / freebsdzine / etc etc to cater for those who (quite > rightly) believe that the official stuff is aimed at the geekship. Perhaps it's time to start thinking about an official companion to the FreeBSD Handbook, something titled on the order of "FreeBSD Newbie's Guide" or "Learning FreeBSD"? We don't want to drive away the "geekship" with Redhat-style docs, but neither should be be driving away the newbies. FreeBSD already has the best documentation in terms of completeness, but it should also be the best in all categories. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message