Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 01:09:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Install *actually* friendly Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808050103020.26406-100000@lionking.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980805023920.11998B-100000@localhost>
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On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Dexnation Holodream wrote: > In plain english, sure, we could cater to a little bit more to the > novice user, but they're still going to run into some very basic > problems. Now, if we spruce up the documentation, then, if they're > smart enough to RTFM, and we put a few tutorials in, we'd be 10x > better off, having created a set of slightly more clueful users. Well put. I for one would cast my vote for avoiding the Microsoft/AOL ideal of making things so blindingly one-click easy that even people who can't drive or fry an egg can get on the Net, in favor of the "Teach a man to fish" principle. There's no need to hand-hold in the implementation phase when a tutorial will do the job-- and maybe teach somebody something along the way. Sure, that does mean the tutorials *do* have to be written, and written well. But thus far FreeBSD has stuck quite well to these principles, and therein lies a lot of its strength. Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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