On 9/1/2012 8:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Eleanore Boyd wrote: > >> And besides that, you were once in his position, otherwise known as >> being a "n00b" in the gamer shorthand that has infested common English. >> For that matter, we all were, and possibly still are. > Elly, > There are generally three types of people who ask questions on the lists. > > First, there are people who have some experience and just need some > help in one area to overcome a particular issue. > > Second, there are some who think they know a lot and deviate from the > book and then challenge the book because what they did went wrong. > > Third, there are those that really do not have sufficient experience > with Linux in general. Perhaps they try to build LFS without ever > installing or using a distro like Fedora or SUsE or Ubuntu. > > In the last two cases, they have often skipped the preface completely. > Examples are 'Audience' and 'Host System Requirements'. > > Not too long ago, one guy was quite upset because we didn't have a way > for him to type 'makelfs' or equivalent and create the whole system, > BLFS included. That was an example of the third group. > > A subset of the third group is those who ask a tremendous number of > questions. Sometimes the questions are quite reasonable, but it gets > old when it becomes obvious they are asking questions without even > trying to research an answer. > > Let's take the recent thread "Boot message log location". It was a > reasonable question and Ken made a fairly long reply. I suggested > setting up an interactive boot, but I got a reply "That's optional, I > don't want to do that." I think the conversation went downhill from there. > > We try to help most users, but sometimes it's hard. > > -- Bruce I was referring to Ben's attitude in his reply. I don't appreciate people who accuse one person of condescension when they themselves have written such a reply. And besides that, with the way Linux is in general, it seemed appropriate to use the term.
On a side note, I love calling myself a "n00b". It's just so much fun :) Elly -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
