> While it is always good advice to "Read the Fine Material" available, it is
> not the only advice to give. Sometimes just a few clues are helpful,
> sometimes a whole primer needs to be written that _isn't_ in the fine
> material available, because whoever wrote it wrote it for a different
> audience with a different background.
>
> For example, when Reiserfs was introduced, how many people were asking for
> a utility to convert ext2 partitions to Reiser? It was _definitely_ time
> for a primer because the reiser info available on the was for bona fide
> computer scientists and mathematicians, like me. The ext2 information
> wasn't much better.
>
> So if you see responses to queries that sometimes seem like explanations
> you might consider less than expert, remember we have a lot of experts on
> Windows systems migrating this way _because_ they are frustrated with
> "Consult your System Administrator" in all the WinManuals. Since it IS the
> system administrator consulting these manuals--the advice chases its tail.
> If some of us don't provide a bridge to understanding, who will?
>
> Linux certainly has more documentation--a whole mountain of it. But there
> is another old adage, "In order to ask the right question, you already have
> to know most of the answer."
>
> Civileme
HOOORAY, finally someone understands the fix a good share of us are in.
I don't consider myself to be stupid, but, most of the "MAN" pages are
written in a language it has take 4 years to just start to understand.
Linux is the HOPE of the future of computing and we need all the support from
everybody with answers to ANY question, newbie through bona fide computer
scientists and mathematicians alike.
The one thing the linux community can do is get help to the person asking the
question quickly and from several different sources BASED ON WORKING
EXPERIENCE. This is better than anything offered by any other OS, bar none.
I personally want to thank each and every one who has taken the time to
explain the solution to a problem to me and will contribute what I can in
return.
Thanks Civileme.
--
Ken Thompson
Electrocom Computer Services
Payette, Idaho 83661
(208) 642-11701
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