Randy McMurchy wrote:
The magazine article mentions LFS in *one* sentence. "A good resource for beginners is LFS". Hardly misleading or defamatory. Calling LFS a "good resource", is to everyone in the world, a good thing. Unfortunately, the "for beginners" doesn't belong, but that hardly makes it misleading or defamatory.
But if "for beginners" doesn't belong, surely that makes it misleading. I certainly can see it causing the reader of said article to think "Oh, I'm new to this whole Linux game, let's go read the LFS book because it's aimed at beginners such as me". I'm certainly not going to argue over the accuracy of the "good resource" element of that sentence, but when coupled with the "for beginners" part it suddenly takes on a much less accurate meaning.
Anyway, this is all quickly becoming a storm in a teacup. As Richard pointed out yesterday, if we get an influx of newbies based on reading that article, we just point them to his excellent pre-reading hint and then LFS becomes a "good resource for beginners", well, by-proxy anyway :) It's already linked to at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1/prologue/prerequisites.html, so hopefully such redirections won't be required too often.
Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
