Richard A Downing wrote:
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.
I agree, R, when shall we begin?
Sash
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