Matthew Flaschen wrote: >> Surely Linux error messages should be intelligible >> by the common user? >> Or are they intended solely for gurus? > > Some are for end users, some are for gurus (meant for posting on bug > reports and mailing lists). "Translating" every error message is not a > good use of developer time. I probably shouldn't have said "error message". I should have said "informational message". Surely it would take very little effort to explain what "device state change: 1 -> 2" actually means? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines