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 >> > 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
Why should we assume that people start from knowing how to use a computer? When I grew up no-one knew what a computer was, never mind how to use one (I plan to learn RSN). The biggest problem that Linux has is that everyone learns computers with Wingdoos, and not with a proper system. Wangflues is just not the right way to think, never mind use a computer. We should have a book for beginners - Absolute Beginners - you know like the kids in the school next door. But it won't be a book about building Linux from Scratch. It could be a book about a distro built from LFS/BLFS (DVD in the cover) though. 'Start life with Linux' R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
