On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 1:39 pm, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 12:51 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > > Hi folks.  This is just a general information post about our
> > > wiki situation. There seems to be a lot of discussion on this
> > > list about the Community Wiki. It seems the membership of this
> > > list has really taken to the concept.
> > >
> > > I also see a lot of questions on this list about how to deal
> > > with Cooker, and I am not sure that everyone realizes that
> > > there is a Cooker wiki too, complete with Cooker HOWTO.  So I
> > > just wanted to point that out to the list since beta testing is
> > > in full swing.
> > >
> > > The main page is here:
> > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux
> > >
> > > The HOWTO is here:
> > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo
> >
> > I don't suppose you could do a short intro piece, making Cooker
> > sound slightly less terrifying, to act as a link to those pages,
> > could you?
>
> Well the CookerHowTo does tell you exacty what it is, so the fact
> at it makes some people terrified is _intentional_ ....
> So if you intend to run Cooker, you have to be prepared to do some
> bugtesting/fixing too, and have the rescue cd handy for rebooting
> the system when it's totally messed up....
>
I understand that.  I was thinking along the lines of suggesting that 
it should be on a secondary system if you don't have the expertise 
and time to cope with such problems.

> But if you still are up for the challenge .... just go for it ;-)
>
I wouldn't want to put people off, but I'm frequently shocked to find 
newbies installing cooker packages without any understanding of what 
they are taking on.

> It's fun when it works, but it may be a PITA to get a broken
> system fully functional again... especially when you hit a bug
> that's hard to reproduce...
>
'Intermittant faults' are always b*s to get sorted <g>

Anne

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