Good evening Shlomi,
I am in the club a newbe that often racks his brains for answers. I still find
it difficult to deal with a compressed .tar file and install it. I am sure that
for the experienced they do this with their eyes closed. Sometimes I get the
/home/moshe/desktop/..... does not exist. Trying to get around in the console
is sometimes for the newbe a real nightmare. When some experts say do this add
this or that it may take quite a while before the console accepts the command
request. I find that to make a file in a folder is a headache. I first have to
cd to the actual directory, this I understand. Then I have to use mkedir to
make the directory. To actually get a text file into that new directory I have
to create the file and save to the desktop. Sometimes the mv file -T /Whatever
works or CD to the relevant directory and type in the console "import /...../
and hope for the best.
Moshe
--- On Tue, 17/2/09, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote:
From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il>
Subject: Re: Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions!
(was:Re: No noobs?)
To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Date: Tuesday, 17 February, 2009, 7:09 PM
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 14:23:23 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Compiling a Kernel was a new thing in 1995, when I started doing it.
Now
> > it's usually not necessary for the average user to do, and IMHO
saying
> > that you had to do it to access a device would scare away the average
new
> > user.
> >
> > As for writing a driver, it's not a noob thing, it's not even
an "expert"
> > thing.
> >
> > I expect that the number of people who have even read a driver's
source
> > code on this list could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
>
> Exactly. The distinction between noob and experienced posts is too
> blurry today to justify two lists. Especially when there is
> essentially _no_traffic_ on the noobs list (I subscribed yesterday and
> there have been no messages so far).
There is indeed very little traffic on GNUbies-IL . I expect most new Linux
users ask on web-forums instead of on mailing lists. I'm still a GNUbies-IL
admin in case someone posts, and am subscribed there to answer any questions
that people may have.
I personally support accepting beginners' posts here on Linux-IL, assuming
there will be any. I don't expect the added traffic to overwhelm Linux-IL,
and
it may lead to interesting more advanced or more philosophical discussions.
Some beginners may be intimidated by the more advanced questions, but I doubt
it will be an issue. In any case, maintaining GNUbies-IL is not time consuming
at all, so I'm perfectly fine keeping it in its mostly-dormant condition.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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