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 -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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