Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 2454
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Thank you. Man pages CAN be good, but never answer the question..
It gets *much* stickier! One area that is a serious problem is the relationship to "Universal Service", where big users subsidize a ubiquitous network to improve their own ability to...
Man pages say 'this is how it works, these are all the knobs you can fiddle with..here is the accelrator, the brake and the gear lever, and these are the gear ratios.
The poor user want's to know how to get the car to GO. Thats all. Stuff like 'how do I get the engine to start'..well IF you happen to know that a program called 'ignitionkey' is the one you need..then a glance at it's man page showing that it has three positions, one for off, one for run and one for start, might be useful...if you don;t..you are stuck.
What is needed is a single base place - a sort of wikipedia of instructions - on how to get linux to DO things. Nit how to dismantle it and put it back together. I'd be happy to post exact details on how to get at least MY distro to do stuff that I know..that could be amended by other people if I got it wrong.
Man pages are hints from a programmer to another of equal stature intellectually, and usually equal knowledge more or less. They are not instructions.
Funny you should mention it... I just helped deliver a stack of pebreastion signatures to Senator Herb Kohl's office on this very issue. I...
The books are some help - expensive and full of errors- but they generally get you started.
Linux Dealt a rest BLOW by Apple !!!!!!! 2455
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