Subject:
Re: Idea for new complete Linux documentation
From:
Randy Kramer ####@####.####
Date:
12 Mar 2014 21:52:16 +0000
Message-Id: <201403121751.54103.rhkramer@gmail.com>
I, for one, have not seen any previous posts from you, looking back to April
(2013). Maybe you need to resubmit your proposal?
On Wednesday 12 March 2014 12:36:10 pm frank ernest wrote:
> I'm uncertain why I've gotten no response to my thread.
> I submitted a brief bio for determining if I have the necessary expertise.
> I submitted a proposal too.
> I can only guess why and try to resolve whatever problems I can think up.
> Perhaps you think my mind is made up?
> No, it's not. I would not be asking for your advise and acceptance into the
> LDP if I already had made up my mind. I actually lose little as the
> partially completed guides have yet to reach 100 pages, so I lose little
> time. What learning I've gotten has been to my benefit as well as to
> others. Perhaps you feel that you do not want to burst my bubble?
> I don't mind, I'm not out to do the impossible, nor am I in it for me.
> Consider the pitiable users... even the educated ones suffer from the lack
> of information regardless of the OS. Picture, if you will, your a windowz
> user, your in a 12 by 24 inch container. You grow tired of the cramped,
> buggy, cold container your in. You find a thin tunnel out, and behold your
> in a 12 by 24 light year universe, the birds are singing, the grass sucking
> up the water, the sun is processing it's contents. You are gripped by
> terror, so much to do, so many places to go, so many things to see... What
> should you do first? Where should you go first?! What should you see
> first!?! Your not understanding any of this HELLP!!! Then from behind, a
> person, whose name is bill, creeps up, there is a whirring motor-type
> noise, a whoosh, and you back again where you started, panicked of going
> out ever again. I realize the previous analogy must be difficult to grasp
> as you've probably been in the Linux movement for some time. Therefore,
> consider some actual statements by the users of windowz I know (one per
> person):
>
> Education Remark
>
> Highschool I'm compressing these mp4s [on my Pentium 4] with
> 7zip so they will be smaller.
> Highschool It has too much information on the hard disk [5GiB],
> that's why it's taking so long. Delete some files and
> then it will run faster.
> Highschool (X error happened on two laptops when connecting to the
> wireless network.) It must be your laptop, it's old.
> College Don't shutdown the computer!! You will break it!!!
> College (Why is it so slow? I asked.) "It's old."
> she replied. [Actually, she was running way
> to many tasks concurrently.]
> College You can't turn text into a number.
>
> I'm not in it for me, I could just call it quits and throw together several
> rather poor and out dated manuals and put them in an rpm and ship it, but,
> as you can see, the users are in need. As a final note, I ask you, why
> aren't people lining up to download Linux? Not enough games you say? Was
> Linux founded on games? Did the kernel improve because uneducated users
> started playing games? Are users who are in the Linux community just for
> games really going to help/learn much? I can't say for certain, why there
> are not people lining up to download Linux. However, the more I learn about
> Linux, the more I like it (who could hate something that's free, both
> monetary and modifiability (not to mention the excellent design, the
> backward compatibility, support for almost any, and every: protocol,
> language (both spoken and programed,) etc, etc, etc,) so, it follows that
> there must be an information gap. The only real objection I've seen out
> there, is the "I don't want to learn it, objection." Though knowledge of
> truth is an amiable thing, people will not respond well if it is pushed on
> them. Unfortunately, Linux guides/howtos do little to solve this problem.
> To often, so much complex information is taught so quickly that it causes
> even yours truly to become sea sick while sitting on dry land. The other
> half of this objection is that grandma-so-and-so is not going to be very
> likely to switch to Linux because she can't read that fast, so, less is
> more (pun intended.) You don't have to know all about frame relay,
> arp-poisoning, URIs, or even IP addresses to set up a wireless connection
> and start surfing the web. I advocate giving it to them a little at a time,
> instead of all at once (not to mention the fact that people will not
> remember a book's chapter on networking by the time they are through with
> the part on shell script if you explain everything.) If you will not
> respond to me would you PLEASE AT LEAST GIVE ME A THUMBS UP OR DOWN OR
> SOMETHING!
>
> Thanks, David
>
> You're welcome.\n Sincerely, Mail Daemon\n
>
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