Re: Old Computer Parts


Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote:

No matter how easy or difficult the question you ask, there will always
be some smartass who tell to you go RTFM (which is often a longer
sentence to type than the answer to your question). Don't let it bother
you. Eric S. Raymond's advice is good advice, but I know people can be
intimidated and/or confused by some documentation out there. Heck,
after more than 10 years of using linux some projects' documentation
still overwhelm me. If you know absolutely nothing about a certain
program or the technologies involved, it can be difficult to figure out
where to start.

One great thing about linux is huge amount of documentation and another is
that it is developing and introducing new stuff almost every day but lot
of that documentation is more than 2 years old and tells you little about
current
distro. Sometimes user of that old documentation could be even misled.

--
Mirko Scurk


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