On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:37:44 -0700 Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The target > audience of this book has fallen drastically, and my one shot in the > dark request for trunk would be to rip out a lot of the text that is > currently in it and take it back down to circa the 3.0 days when it had > all it *needed* to teach an *advanced* user (the stated target audience) > how to achieve a base system.
Strangely, for I used to be one of the vociferous 'add explanation if it helps the educational import of the book' brigade, I find myself agreeing with this. Probably for the wrong reasons. There seem to be an inordinate number of new users in support, to be fair mostly either very young or for whom English (even Anerican) is not their first language, who seem to need a personal educational service on every aspect of the process. I have three of them in my killfile. This may be part of a general trend in society to dumb-down everything so that it's accessible to the lowest common denominator - I suspect that my bankers prefer telephone calls because few of their employees can read or write. I think now that the best course would be to remove much of the 'explanation' from the book and put it into another, parallel, educational commentary. My other thought is to encrypt the book, and only let those who have passed the on-line examination plus an email-viva-voce get the encryption key :-) You get to the exam questions by reading the FAQ right to the end.... R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
