From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 30 11:48:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.scana.com (falcon.scana.com [161.156.101.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8ED37B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by falcon.scana.com; id OAA27250; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:48:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailexnet.scana.com(161.156.248.69) by falcon.scana.com via smap (V5.5) id xma027196; Mon, 30 Oct 00 14:48:24 -0500 Received: by mailexnet.scana.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:32:49 -0500 Message-ID: From: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" To: "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" Cc: "'Keith Davey'" , "'David Johnson'" Subject: RE: Newbie packages Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:32:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think the key would not be to tell them to use XXX or YYY, but that XXX is real popular and give the advantages. This allows the newbie to explore the ports section in a semi-guided fashion. Let the newbie try vi and dump it if they don't like it, as long as they learn there are 50 other TE's available to them in the ports. When I was first setting up FreeBSD (I am still a newbie), I had a lot of trouble figuring out which of the ports/packages were worthwhile. I would much rather have a nice article on each of the popular or more useful ports. I make use of maybe 0.05% of the ports, simply because I don't whats there and what is worthwhile. I am still amazed that I never knew of the vnc port! ...Michael... > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of David Johnson > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 2:12 PM > To: Keith Davey > Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Newbie packages > > > Keith Davey wrote: > > > This could be a dificult list to construct. There will be several > > opinions on what is best to do. Give newbies a REAL TE > like VI or Emacs > > (abid not easy to learn, but very effective) Or do we give > them "training > > wheels" like PICO or JED to start with and hope they outgrow it... > > This is the big question, and I don't have an answer. We can tell the > newbie to learn vi, but if they "fall and skin their knees", > they may go > back to Windows. > > David > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message