On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:59:30PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > On 2/2/07, Incoming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as > >rants or flames, don't waste my time. > > > > Oh the irony! > > There are nicer ways to ask for help you know. Starting of by flaming > people, then preemptively trying to make them refrain from flaming you > isn't going to help much.
I didn't read any of it as a flame -- more like a scream of agony. > > Anyway, some general pointers for the Debian newbie: > 1) docs are in order of preference: man-pages, > /usr/share/doc/<packagename>, info-pages, the config files themselves, > the various debian docs (available on the website), google, this > mailinglist (see google) and then everything else. The trouble with Debian is that is is an old distro, and some of its documentation has become seriously out-of-date. If there was some way of maintaining the documentation along with the code, that would be great! -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
