Chris Staub wrote:

roliopolio wrote:

I was looking forward to LFS bringing clarity into my Linux world. Maybe it will, but I can't even build it.

In other words, you want to be hand-held every step of the way. You want the book to tell you explicitly every single command, and don't really want to learn anything from it.

-- What might also be useful is a list of explicit pre-amble instuctructions that set up the environment

Why couldn't we have a book for beginners? A book with basic Linux instructions. A book that is so basic anyone who knows how to use a computer and understands a bit about operating systems could build a system and learn along the way? Rather than just preaching to everyone they have to have x months of linux experience, must have read this prerequisite, and that prerequisite; let's put a book together that encompasses all of that. People get tired of the main option for use on a computer, discover Linux, hear about LFS, jump in the deep end and either drown in frustration, give up and walk away with a bitter taste of failure, or hang around reading and hoping someday it will all make sense. The steps in the book aren't hard to follow. It's getting ready to begin the book that loses many. Let's make a study group that begins at the beginning. The people in that "study group" could stay away from all the devs and editors except the ones who wanted to participate. We could actually begin at the beginning and progress to LFS. Who knows we might even last through BLFS. Anyone interested?

Sash
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