From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 9:30:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.aracnet.com (mail3.aracnet.com [216.99.193.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E4037BCBE for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail3.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02509; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:30:48 -0700 Received: by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id JAA23690; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:30:44 -0700 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:30:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Hamell To: msilver@sc.rr.com Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" , "'Doug Young'" Subject: RE: new books, changing my pt. of view In-Reply-To: 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 > You have hit the nail on the head. I have heard profressional UNIX > programmers complain about this same thing. Sun employees a team of technical writers just for that purpose. The FreeBSD team can't afford something like that, nor do the developers want to do it. It ain't glamours but it's a perfect way for those of us who considers ourselves 'newbies' to contribute meaningfully. Check out the freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list. > I wonder if this gap could not be filled by a well designed web site. > Basically a 'What is' and 'How to' database. For example, if you wanted to > set up a firewall, search for 'firewall', and a list of the available > packages would be displayed with detailed layman descriptions of each with > advantages and disadvantages, home web sites, and most importantly, step by > step setup instructions and maybe some troubleshooting guidliness pulled > from past messages. This would help 1) in finding the appropriate package > for a given situation, and 2) in setting it up, which is always the hardest > part. The instructions would have to written to the lowest common > denomenator (like me). http://www.freebsddiary.org (.com?) goes a long ways towards doing just this. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message