There is a lot- I do my best and don't get nearly all of it read. A lot of times I don't absorb what I do read properly which was the case with reading "the great x reorganization". I guess that other things told about removing xdm and xfs but I only remember the xbase thing, which I did.
I really really don't want to slam linux documentation because it is the best computer documentation that I have found for anything... I can find more and better info about linux on the net than I have found in expensive books about windoze, etc. The documentation is great! I'm not sure there is a better way to organize it although there may be. I admit I messed up by not catching the xdm thing- but I *was* reading, and I *was* trying. I was just busy and not everything stuck. A lot of changes happened to my system and I can hang with that. My real point is that this change (the x bootup thing) was such a major change to the OS- that I feel that a "do you want to boot right into X (y or N)" would have been justified during install or config with dselect. I apologize for being so rash at first- I freaked out when my system locked up. considering that I upgraded my whole system without rebooting right off of the net and this is the only thing that bugged me, I would say that that is unparalleled in my computing experience. Documentation is great! Debian is kewl- Thanks to all of the development and support people- keep up the good work =) On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:36:43 EST > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows > > In a message dated 3/15/99 8:05:15 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > > Please don't slam people for not reading everything. That is why you > > are needed- because they don't have time, or maybe they just aren't > > capable of understanding everything- again, that is why you are needed. > > > > I have to admit, there is a bit of truth to this, alot of people just don't > have the time to read 18 different documents in 18 different locations. Man > pages, info pages, FAQs, HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, READMEs, INSTALL docs, package > descriptions... it is a bit daunting. I do feel that anyone installing > anything shoud be up for some reading, but just how much reading is the > question. I'm not even going to think about complaining about the amount of > documentation, coming from systems that have zip, I know from experience how > helpful good documentation can be. But I wonder if maybe there is a better > way to organize the volumunous information given to us in a standard, easy to > use, heirarchial fashion. > > -Jay >
