Re: Is there a need for a hard copy OpenBSD documentation project?

[Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de>]

At 09:09 03.09.00 -0400, Luke Seubert <lseubert@radix.net> wrote:
>Why, OpenBSD could even be just like
>Microsoft marketing!  Every six months you get an update to the OS, and you
>kinda/sorta have to buy the documentation update pack.  How clever and
>insidious.  Let the money roll on in!


I'm afraid, the big money will not come in near future.

Openbsd is far from being the underlying OS on a computer used in
a 9 to 5 job from a secretary; also, it is not intended, as far as
I understand it, for a home PC user who runs games and applications
in the weekend. In short, though well documented, openbsd is not the 
most user friendly OS (which, OTH, is well documented <g>).

Also, please keep in mind, that, at least in Europe, about 60 per
cent of university members use 'the internet' but only 7 per cent of
private households, according to a news report of one week ago (also, 
most frequently, isp and/ or phone are charged on a pay-per-minute 
base).

Having said that, I would have liked to own a hard copy that I could
read in bus or train when driving to work, during installation etc. 
Also, from my view, it's an unfriendly psychological aspect to return to 
Microsoft Windows when I want to 'read-print' openbsd's faq and man 
pages.

But, true also, before warming up for a hard copy of the openbsd 
documentation I'd like to know a little more on the intended target 
population the book/hard copy would aim at. Even from my very limited 
understanding of unix and openbsd there should be differences when the
intended target population is a system admin, an end user with a hobby 
VPN, or an end user with a dial-in connection used every now and then.