Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:54:32 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <A180009977889@aol.com>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Netgraph Message-ID: <001201c1797c$a0b7f300$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <10e.8fb0dc1.29383049@aol.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of >A180009977889@aol.com >Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:44 PM >To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Netgraph > > >"Lego" is a good analogy. The "usefulness" is not the point. Its great for >hackers, and terrible for the general technical population. It depends on >your goal, whether its to build an OS for hackers, or to gain widespread >acceptance for FreeBSD from the general technical public. Complicated, >unintuitive interfaces with a long learning curve are not generally accepted. > >DB > This is a myth, your greately underestimating the "general technical public" The general technical public has displayed a willingness to read instructions and follow directions (much different than the general computing public which is a different animal) If there is anything wrong with netgraph is that there's a lack of examples of setting up common configurations in the handbook, man pages, and other documents. Also, speaking as a writer, section 4 of the manual page on netgraph is extremely hard to digest, within the first paragraph alone they redefine the meaning of the words "graph", "node", "hook", and "edge" I understand it's because of the modularness of the software but this is a man page that needs to be a lot less abbreviated. But none of this matters to the general technical public because what most of those people do is find a FAQ that contains a recipe for what they want to be doing and follow that. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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