Torben, Aldert, thanks for your comments. I like Torben's suggestion to employ the question-answer format and we can try it out in this thread. We best focus on the next question first:
Q. For whom is the Q/A newbee documentation (emerging in this thread) supposed to be of interest?
A. For people like myself - i.e. people with some programming experience, professionally tied into MSWindows conditions and motivated to explore OpenACS on a DSL-connected FreeBSD server.
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For some coherence I suggest we sequentially address questions in the following areas:
1. What do I need before I start? (e.g., FreeBSD server; PuTTY, iXPLORE on desktop; a link to Philip and Alex's Guide);
2. Where and how do I get and store the relevant sources? (wget, cvsup, ports, aolserver, libxml, freebsd-aolserver-extras, aol-startscript, postgresql, postgres-headers, postgres-startscript, pgdriver, daemontools, openacs-core, openacs-packages, openacs-openfts-driver package, dotlrn-core)
3. How do I compile and configure aolserver and postgres?
4. How do I configure monitoring aolserver and postgresql as services?
5. How do I install OpenACS-core and -packages?
6. How do I configure FreeBSD, aolserver and postgres for some speed?
7. How do I install OpenFTS-driver?
8. How do I install dotLRN-core?
9. How do I install and configure external packages?
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I realise I have two subtopics in this response (the first Q/A tuple and a concept sequence).
