On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:42:07PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
The problem is, what is a noob question? If I've been running Linux since 2001 (and I have- Red Hat 7,1 with KDE 2) but I still don't know how to compile a kernel (and I don't), then am I a noob? If I install Kubuntu for a friend and he wants to write a driver for his home made serial sharks-wth-frickin-lasers controller is he a noob?
Compiling a Kernel was a new thing in 1995, when I started doing it. Now it's usually not necessary for the average user to do, and IMHO saying that you had to do it to access a device would scare away the average new user. As for writing a driver, it's not a noob thing, it's not even an "expert" thing. I expect that the number of people who have even read a driver's source code on this list could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel g...@mendelson.com N3OWJ/4X1GM _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
