From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 22 12:57:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01954 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:57:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.pacificnet.net (polaris.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01933 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:57:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bear@pacificnet.net) Received: from mustang (pm3h-43.pacificnet.net [207.171.35.140]) by polaris.pacificnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA22351 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:55:15 -0800 (PST) env-from (bear@pacificnet.net) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:55:20 -0800 (PST) From: Joey Garcia To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbies writing manuals Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Okay, from what I understand is that there are a bunch of newbies wanting to write manuals. Right? I just want to make sure if it's newbies wanting to write manuals, or newbies wanting advanced users to write manuals *for* newbies. Would be ridiculous for a newbie (assuming that the newbie doesn't know anything) to actually sit down and write a manual or something. Anyways, I support a project for writing simple manual pages and docs. Step by Step how-to's are also important. It's not also important for the advanced users to write simple stuff for newbies, but for corporations as well. Let's imagine a world where corporations can adopt freebsd as their intranet server based on the fact that it's easy to use and *free*. A world where people won't choose Windows NT over FreeBSD or Linux, or whatever just because it's a simple point and click thing. Actually, with the right window manager, Linux or FreeBSD can be a point and click OS. KDE is doing a hell of a job at doing that. For your newbies coming from a windows world, once you get X figured out try using KDE. Go to www.kde.org for all the info and stuff. bear =================================================== Joseph Garcia Downey, CA bear@pacificnet.net "Dont drink and drive, you might spill the beer." =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message