From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 12:33:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24A037BF6E for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17471; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:33:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner.apana.org.au(203.3.126.132), claiming to be "ROADRUNNER" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdr17469; Thu Aug 3 05:32:59 2000 Message-ID: <015401bffcb9$10b7e620$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> From: "Doug Young" To: "Rick Hamell" , Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" References: Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:37:11 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've was subscribed to the docs list for months but gave it away as a bad joke .. its all propellorheads talking to others of their kind ..... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of touch with the "real world" folk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hamell" To: Cc: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" ; "'Doug Young'" Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:30 AM Subject: RE: new books, changing my pt. of view > > > 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