Ken Foskey wrote:
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> My hat goes in with Terry.
>
> I think that there is great scope for a newbies list.
Oh, oh - Did I say that. I think I didn't, but if newbies want a newbies
list, then I would agree with that. If calling a list "newbies"
encourages people to ask questions, receive answers and have a better
experience with linux - then fine.
If it is used to force newbies off the main list, then no.
> This list should
> have predefined answers to 'which is the best distro' with input from
> each camp. We KNOW that archives will not really work with newbies.
The problem we have is that "we" are not sure exactly what form to
publish predefined answers in. This topic has been discussed in the
past. I've also built a sample standard replies from the archives push
button job http://www.woa.com.au/lists/slug/slugfaq.html.
I think it is going to be one of those things that is always going to be
around. My 2c on the best approach is that various people adopt a topic
and take it upon themselves to answer questions posted to the list on
that topic.
Newbies - to rant on what I've always said - you are the best people to
answer other newbies questions. It is all fresh in your mind and most
HOW-TOs are not written by newbies with newbies in mind. My most popular
WWW page is the one that just outlines the steps I carried out, problems
found, etc, when I setup my webcam. So don't be afraid to put up similar
pages on how you have done stuff.
Good example from yesterday - I've never touch a sparc box in my life
and the book and the how-to we found said "dd" the rescue.bin file to a
floppy and boot off it. As we found out, these experienced people (that
wrote the book and the how-to) left out something fundamental to do with
sparc floppies and the system barfed on it.
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