KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, christopher wrote:
Where would be the right place to go looking to
subscribe to a newbie level user-support list?
Perhaps rephrased 'complete newbie user support list'
... LOL
I just felt like chiming in. It has seemed to me that
freebsd-hacker is a nice intermediate list. Less volume,
and wtf does 'hacker' mean? in other words, it seems open
to wide variety of questionings. I have been running freeBSD
for only a few years myself, and I still need to muster
up more courage for kernel builds and cvsup, but I am feeling
that I am making progress. To tell the truth, I wouldn't
mind someone else chiming in on their understanding about
what "freebsd-hacker" is for.
There are descriptions of the purposes of all the lists posted in a
couple places.
http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers
A few quotes for your convenience:
Re -hackers
This is a forum for technical discussions related to FreeBSD. This is
the primary technical mailing list. It is for individuals actively
working on FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative
solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion
are also welcome.
General lists: The following are general lists which anyone is free (and
encouraged) to join:
Technical lists: The following lists are for technical discussion. You
should read the charter for each list carefully before joining or
sending mail to one as there are firm guidelines for their use and content.
So -hackers really isn't a place for newbies. Newbies should subscribe
to -questions. This was the first list I subscribed to back in the day.
A hacker is person who writes code in the context of this discussion.
(The first person to quote the jargon file earns minus one pedantic.)
Building the world isn't that hard really. FreeBSD has done a great job
making it mostly a fire and forget operation. As long as you stay in
the shallow end it's easy. It's when you start tinkering with your
makefiles and your sources that it gets fun.
Later,
Jason
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