From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Feb 18 16: 5: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mclean.mail.mindspring.net (mclean.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAE937B400 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:04:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from jayed.com ([66.149.200.43]) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16cxmE-0003we-00 for freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:04:58 -0500 Received: (qmail 43007 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Feb 2002 05:03:57 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 23:03:57 -0600 From: Jay Edwards To: Tom Rhodes Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon Doc BoF Notes Message-ID: <20020219050357.GN42451@jayed.com> References: <200202182315.g1INFpc93221@bmah.dyndns.org> <3C719161.5090803@pittgoth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In-Reply-To: <3C719161.5090803@pittgoth.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-URL: http://www.jayed.com/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: CC95 B1CB A7F5 DA42 4BA7 B6C8 447F 7AFF B6F0 825B Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom Rhodes(darklogik@pittgoth.com)@2002.02.18 18:42:25 +0000: > Can I suggest, the division of the hanbook. I can see where the=20 > handbook can be divided between home user and like corp user. Mainly=20 > the reasons for this is most home users may not need to know things like= =20 > apache configuration, or sendmail configuration. Just use the ISP's=20 > mail server for email. =20 I'd like to point out that, at this time, 99.999% of all FreeBSD home users are as technically competent as any FreeBSD corporate user. The person who uses FreeBSD at home is not likely to have any serious conceptual problems with apache or sendmail config file. I don't see FreeBSD migrating into the population of "I don't understand apache.conf" anytime soon. (And I think that the number of people who thoroughly understand sendmail.cf is so small that it's not worth targeting them). Right now, I think that anyone who is going to use FreeBSD at home is capable of ignoring anything in the Handbook that doesn't apply to them. If at some point at the future our target audience changes, splitting up the handbook might make some sense, but I don't think that time is now. Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message