From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jul 11 0:20: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from luna.osd.bsdi.com (luna.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 509CD37B91E; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com) Received: by luna.osd.bsdi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1CED43142; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 00:19:55 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Nik Clayton Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New User's Handbook Part III Message-ID: <20000711001955.A923@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Reply-To: jim@FreeBSD.org References: <20000710121458.A43105@luna.osd.bsdi.com> <20000711065351.A5228@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.5i In-Reply-To: <20000711065351.A5228@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 06:53:51AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 at 06:53:51 +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 12:14:58PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > > After implementing most of your suggestions, and fixing a few errors > > that were pointed out to me, I've rebuilt and uploaded the New User's > > Handbook . > > Hmm-m-m-m. > > I dunno. It kinda reads like the "FreeBSD Advertising Ourselves" > Handbook. It's like it's targetted at people who haven't installed > FreeBSD yet, or made the decision to, rather than people who have > installed FreeBSD and are now trying to work out what to do with it. True. The content is from the existing handbook though, so we probably oughta re-evaluate that to :-) > Chapter 6 is the most "new user-ish" bit there. > > It looks like I'm going to be around for the O'Reilly docs session, > and a couple of days after that. Maybe we could get together at WC on > Monday or Tuesday and brainstorm around it for a bit? Sounds like a plan to me. - jim -- /* jim mock - berkeley software design, inc - open source division */ /* documentation manager - jim@FreeBSD.org - jim@luna.osd.bsdi.com */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message