user-opinion poll?! [was: Would this be useful?]

[Roman Neuhauser]

# platanthera at web.de / 2004-04-20 18:40:04 +0200:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2004 09:35, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:42:21AM -0400, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote:
> > > Hi list, this is my first message here, but I'll get to the point;
> > > I really like writing documentation for the installation of OSs
> > > sometimes, and I think a lot of newbies to *NIX find  Free BSD hard to
> > > install, the same people think that way about Slackware Linux too, and I
> > > did write a nice tutorial on Slackware that was step by step, and even
> > > told you how many times to push which button to install it.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Did you really read
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html ?
> 
> it would be really hard to create a better installation guide .-)
> 
> I'd like to suggest to do an user-opinion poll to find out what FreeBSD users 
> actually think about the existing documentation and where additions or 
> improvements are most urgently desired. maybe this could motivate users like 
> me, who could imagine to write some kind of documentation but don't know 
> exactly what is really needed.

    two things on which the official documentation wasn't much help to me:
    vinum (Handbook), "cvs the freebsd way" (article)

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