Moving some content to Part 1 of the Handbook

Lowell Gilbert lowell at world.std.com
Wed Dec 10 16:24:58 UTC 2003


nik at freebsd.org (Nik Clayton) writes:

> On the assumption that users new to FreeBSD did information in an order
> that's likely to be most useful to them, while experienced users have no
> problem jumping from chapter to chapter to get the info they need...
> 
> ... browsing the Handbook, it occurs to me that Part 1 stops a bit too
> early.  Specifically, I'd like to move the following chapters to Part 1,
> after "The X Window System".
> 
>    * Desktop Applications
>    * Multimedia
>    * Printing
> 
> Thoughts?

It's a good idea, but Part 1 is already big enough that the
helpfulness of the change may be limited.

The printing section is very technical for new users, anyway...



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