Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 08:19:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: lwells@goalie-usa.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ambrose, Christian" <caa85@home.com> Subject: Re: BSD Magazine (Advertiser Responses) Message-ID: <XFMail.001006081952.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <001501c02e4a$b42bc980$2c0100c0@goalieusa.com>
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On 04-Oct-00 Larry Wells wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I, for one, would be a lot less interested in a magazine that catered > exclusively to newbies. That's what books like the Complete FreeBSD > book are for. (Not to mention many websites. FreeBSDDiary, Daemon > News, etc..) I can see a column or article being focused on > newcomers, but having a BSD magazine solely catering to that > demographic would be demeaning to those of us who have been advocates > for years. I agree. A purely newbie oriented rag would not attract me. I would like to see both newbie AND not-so newbie articles, but also columns for the other wonderful thing you can do with the OS. Let there be colums/tutorials for device driver writing, hardware interfacing, picoBSD, etc. I recently had great fun with /dev/ppi interfacing a HD44780 LCD display and modifying the code and see what actually happened on an attached logic analyzer. ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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