-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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? It's all part of the dumbing down that Linux is going through. The Infinite monkey theorem. ;-) - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkd2/k4ACgkQAO0wNI1X4QFPMwCgwIGvgBtIofyZn4QXnkl6SNHL iHAAnjeXUAPJoamk28l/weH1LqXHDFYA =psRT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
