Steve Bergman became daring and sent these 1.2K bytes,
Jeff Vian wrote:
Please educate yourself, then ask questions about topics where the fine details are not available. Do not rant because someone else has failed to feed you with a spoon.
Actually, I think Andrew has a point. We who have been following Linux since the early to mid 90's and subscribe to LKML and read LinuxToday, LWN, and kerneltraffic on a daily basis do an awful lot of *expecting* of newer Linux users to know an awful lot of things. This is not fedora-devel-list. This is not fedora-test-list. This is fedora-list. Fedora is the closest thing to a home desktop Linux that RedHat has and this is the list for the latest stable version. I would *expect* that a lot of newer Linux users would read it. I hope they do anyway. We really need to drop this elitism thing. We can't afford it anymore.
To be clear, I'm not specifically criticizing the selinux announcement. I'm just saying that in the months and years to come, it is in the best interest of Linux and open source in general to recognize that the audience is changing.
I agree that the linux climate is changing, pretty soon there will be a wizard for everything and every moron out there will be using linux and being a self-proclaimed guru.
I think having to explain everything in every announcement is pretty rediculous. It should be common knowledge, even for new windows imagrants to use google. More and more time and energy are being spent on holding-the-newbies-hand in addition to changing his/her diapers for them.
I don't think anyone is asking for an explanation of SELinux. But all that was required in the original post was a one-line saying "SELinux is security exhanced Linux: for further details see http://foo.bar";
No crime; just missing a little info for those who do not keep abreast of all things Linux-ey
JDL
