Imagine you're completely new to Linux, just real quick, ok? What do you do?
Wouldn't having a look at README be under first if no *the* first thing?
Ah there it is: README. "Linux kernel". nice! So what's that?
"This file was moved to ...... Please notice that there are several....".
Wtf!? Why? Can't they just tell me what's going on like a normal person?
I'm sorry for the exaggeration, but really honestly I think we could do better.
I'm all for not really having content in README, but come on :)
I only try to avoid the biggest damage here and find some nice first words
at least.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <mart...@posteo.de>
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please ignore if too irrelevant, but I personally would put this in 4.11,
if still possible, and rewrite the REAME for 4.12 to be even more friendly.
thanks
martin
README | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index b2ba4aaa3a71..876a98a5d472 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
Linux kernel
============
-This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
+Linux is a Unix-like operating system, originally written by Linus Torvalds.
+Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst for an introduction.
-Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
-These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.
+There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be
+rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.
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2.11.0
