Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 01:53:44 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Installation Guide Project [Was: Re: FreeBSD Ado Message-ID: <XFMail.990404015344.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990403223512.A22484@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
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On 04-Apr-99 Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 08:58:59PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > <snip> > > This all sounds like making a book called FreBSD for Dummies. Sorry > I couldn't resist. Not necessarily a bad idea. I first got started in DOS off of a dummies book. (After graduating from C-64 BASIC. :) Unfortunately, a lot of potential newbies (such as incoming college freshmen) have never used a CLI, and they need all the help they can get to get started. Unfortunately at my school they only cover Un*x briefly (2 credit class) and stress NT. The only ones who actually learn any Un*x are the ones who put want to and do it on their own. And of those who have their interesets piqued (sp?), many give up easily because it's too hard. Esp. for those whe live in a 'point and click' world. Experience shows that those who can use Un*x are often better programmers because they usually know more of what is going on behind the scenes in the computer, so for their own sake I would like as many of my fellow classmates as possible to learn this stuff. Some of 'em need a pretty basic helping hand, and a book can be tehre 24/7, while one person just can't always do that. Go for it Darren! --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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