From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 09:39:54 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 652F816A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0307D43D3F for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@chello.cz) Received: (qmail 58793 invoked by uid 0); 20 Apr 2004 16:39:51 -0000 Received: from r3al16.mistral.cz (HELO isis.wad.cz) (213.220.229.16) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 20 Apr 2004 16:39:51 -0000 Received: by isis.wad.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 31AF12FDA01; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:39:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:39:50 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: platanthera Message-ID: <20040420163950.GA1498@isis.wad.cz> References: <200404200142.21458.goreBOFH@comcast.net> <20040420073513.GA21143@abigail.blackend.org> <200404201840.04418.platanthera@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404201840.04418.platanthera@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 16:39:54 -0000 # platanthera@web.de / 2004-04-20 18:40:04 +0200: > 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. two things on which the official documentation wasn't much help to me: vinum (Handbook), "cvs the freebsd way" (article) -- FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 6:37PM up 8:45, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00