At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=375 is:
Installed Linuxes >40 times. Success (relative success) only came via GUI installs: Slackware once got to 640 x 480 1 bit color, and since I wasn''t already an X Expert.... Back to Mandrake 8.1 I went. Before I went back to Mandrake, no CLI help system was worth anything. Which man do I want? No index. Drat. man 8? man? man Xf86Config? man XF86config? MAN XFree86? man xf86Config? man XDM? then when I read whatever man was the right one... Huh, I wanted man S3Server? No index. No sensible structure. Obfuscation (sorry, thats my word of the day). By the time I got done reading the wrong man pages, I saw an hour had passed.... my install takes only 15 minutes more than that hour, and at least that was functional. You need to teach us administration and must wean us into it gently. The local folder/floppy concept could be very usefu, there. >You think Windows Help system is useful? It may be THERE, but there''s nothing substantive in it, so what good is it?My solution: get someone to help you install the thing at least! President, C*O SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES< I am newbie - you are evidently not. Once you learn the cli, it''s all so very simple? Nah. The common home desktop PC user knows nothing about "which man page tells them the solution to their problem". And they have not one single clue about cli. No knowledge. No clues. No indices. Really - is it that my request is out of line? A simple index browser? Or maybe a non gui based browser which can load rescue docs, or can surf linkable help structures...... But still a cli device. If RPM can have a dependancy tree, and HTML can link, make the dependancy tree concept linkable. Yeah, I know there are higher end apps for this, but we are crashed, remember? No X, no cli familiarity either. I know it can be done!! ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
