Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 11:45:11 -0400 From: Eric Ogren <eogren@earthlink.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/18683: Insufficient detail in /usr/src/UPDATING instruc Message-ID: <20000520114510.A775@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20000520142528.KWQH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:26:16AM -0400 References: <200005200230.TAA61531@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000520142528.KWQH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>
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On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:26:16AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > People have to start somewhere, and if we are going to grow our userbase, > we will have to appeal to more newbies. There's more to making a widely > used OS than writing code. :-) Well, I'm not one of the "make the OS as obscure as possible, so nobody but experienced users can use it", but I also think that we should discourage newbies from performing an activity that could potentially completely screw up their installation. I certainly think that we should appeal to more newbies, and indeed that's why I have sent in a couple of PRs to the doc-team, because, like pretty much any open source project, the docs tend to lag behind the code. I just think we should try to avoid throwing newbies in over their head; you wouldn't ask an average NT user to set up a 5,000 user domain (I can't think of anything analagous(sp) to upgrading via source), and I don't think we should be encouraging a FreeBSD user who doesn't know how to mount his drives to undertake a potentially dangerous upgrade. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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