"Steven C. Darnold" wrote: > > Day Brown wrote: > > > > Why is there no man entry for ldd? > > There is! I just did 'man ldd' on my Slackware system > and got three screens of documentation. Even BasicLinux > has an ldd manpage (in the HD version). Perhaps your > system does not have the full set of man pages? If you > are missing any others, you can read the man pages here: > -------------------------------------- > http://www.ichannel.gr/cgi-bin/man.cgi > -------------------------------------- > I just went there and did a query for ldd. No problem.
> > if they offer a distro slimmed down to just what a single > > user at his own pc needs, it'll be a considerable improvement > > in functionality. > This is an attractive idea, but it's a slippery slope. The > needs of the 'single user at his own pc' vary tremendously. > One user needs a powerful editor with all the bells+whistles; > another needs a simple, easy-to-use editor. One needs support > for his (non-English) native language; another needs support > for his speech synthesizer. One needs a hi-res gaming; another > needs ultra-secure email. One needs a fancy desktop with all > the latest gadgets; another needs an efficient desktop for his > survPC. The list goes on and on. In the end, if you try to > accommodate all the needs of all the 'single users', you end > up with a big distribution. And why not? All this stuff is > free, so you might as well fill the CD. And CDs are cheap to > produce, so you might as well fill a few more. I dont mind them packing all that crap on the cd; what I mind is the failure to simplify and speed up the boot/logon process for the single user. > > Why for instance, do I havta wait an extra ten seconds during > > boot for the distro to check for new hardware? > > Because your "user friendly" distribution assumes you are an > idiot and tries to do everything for you. If you don't like > being treated like an idiot, try a different distribution. I have Steve. I got BSD 4.1.1, Corel 2.1, Debian 2.2, Mandrk 7, and Redhat 5.2 & 7.2. The 7.2 I got most recently, and it is a vast improvement over the first distro I tried, rh 5.2, but all of them stop for a logon screen. I'd prefer an option, that if I wanted root, I'd havta do ctrl-alt-F1. And yeah, I'll prolly get around to trying slackware and suse too. And in this case, 'man ldd' with rh7.2 comes up empty, and that even with a 3CD set. Maybe it is a particular weakness with RH. But in general with nix, the power of the os has expanded a lot faster than the documention to explain what it can do. Anyone who's read a lotta documention over the years can recall the comments by the programmer that he hated writing the doc, and everyone hates documenting code. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
