On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Ric Moore wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:52 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > all i'm suggesting is that it took an inordinately long time to > > figure out what should have been a two-minute exercise. i'm > > guessing that, in most cases, readers aren't interested in a > > long-winded overview of things -- they just want to know what > > commands to run to get something done, which is all i wanted in > > the first place. > > > > in short, what people might want is a fedora "cookbook" with > > tight, concise recipes that just plain work, out of the box. if > > they choose to read up later on the underlying operations, then > > that's their choice. > > A wonderful example of that is http://www.stanton-finley.net/ which > is clear, concise and the content works every time and, for the most > part, still does. Too bad he went to the Ubuntu scheme of things > after FC5. Ric i will (sort of) agree with you. yes, finley's website had/has piles of cool advice on how to do things. my only beef with it is that it is simply too verbose. here's an example -- how to install yumex: http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Yumex sure, that explanation is correct but, man, it's wordy. what's wrong with just saying: "as root, run # yum -y install yumex" seriously, how many times do you need to be told to open a terminal and type "su"? yes, i realize that's being annoyingly picky, but why take 15 lines to say what can be said just as accurately in two? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
