Sash wrote:
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
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.
With all due respect Sash, this is rather akin to me saying "Wow, I just
saw a fighter plane aeuronautical display team at the weekend (e.g. the
Red Arrows -http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/fanspics.html) . I'd love to fly
like that. Now, I can't be bothered to learn the basics like gliding,
then prop planes, etc. Just hand me one of those Hawk jet planes and
tell me how to start it up, put it in a nosedive and pull up in time
before I crash and burn."
There's a reason we mention who we target the book at, and that's to
warn people that this stuff's hard (relative to installing a distro like
Ubuntu). If those folks still want to try it out, that's fine, but they
need to understand that they're trying to run before they've learnt to
crawl and as such they need to pay even more attention to every single
word and instruction in the book than most other LFSers.
Regards,
Matt.
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