On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 05:37:29AM -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 05:20:45PM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote:
> > IMHO, tensions on the FreeBSD lists are running at their greatest
> > level since... oh, I'd say mid-96, when I first subscribed to
> > -questions.
> >
> > If a "FreeBSD newbies info page" will help, then I'm all for it. I
> > don't see what sort of "ramifications" it could have, other than to
> > (perhaps) reduce some of the stress all around.
>
> If we add a "newusers" web document, then how about 1 or 2 "newusers"
> on-line manual pages as well. I'm thinking something along the lines
> of newusers.7 (misc documentation), and newusers.8 (sys admin docs).
> We can setup the default install /etc/motd to mention these documents
> in the hope that they will be read. And maybe mention them elsewhere
> in some of the install documentation, and other places.
>
> If someone gives me the text, I'll be sure that it gets converted
> to our current man page style somehow (either by me, or someone
> I con...err, convince to do it :-). I'm sure given quality text,
> we can find someone to convert it to docbook format, and I can
> probably do that, too, if no one else steps up to do that.
see what sue blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has produced and posts
regularly, every saterday from memory in, for and the education
of how beginners, and where they can find help. it is posted to
freebsd-newbies, which sue does a good job moderating.
regards
jonathan
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