Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows
There is a lot- I do my best and don't get nearly all of it read. A lot
of times I don't absorb what I do read properly which was the case with
reading "the great x reorganization". I guess that other things told
about removing xdm and xfs but I only remember the xbase thing, which I
did.
I really really don't want to slam linux documentation because it is the
best computer documentation that I have found for anything... I can find
more and better info about linux on the net than I have found in expensive
books about windoze, etc. The documentation is great! I'm not sure there
is a better way to organize it although there may be.
I admit I messed up by not catching the xdm thing- but I *was* reading,
and I *was* trying. I was just busy and not everything stuck. A lot of
changes happened to my system and I can hang with that. My real point is
that this change (the x bootup thing) was such a major change to the OS-
that I feel that a "do you want to boot right into X (y or N)" would have
been justified during install or config with dselect.
I apologize for being so rash at first- I freaked out when my system
locked up. considering that I upgraded my whole system without rebooting
right off of the net and this is the only thing that bugged me, I would
say that that is unparalleled in my computing experience.
Documentation is great! Debian is kewl- Thanks to all of the
development and support people- keep up the good work =)
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 MallarJ@aol.com wrote:
> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:36:43 EST
> From: MallarJ@aol.com
> To: ably@home.com, branden@ecn.purdue.edu, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows
>
> In a message dated 3/15/99 8:05:15 PM Central Standard Time, ably@home.com
> writes:
>
> > Please don't slam people for not reading everything. That is why you
> > are needed- because they don't have time, or maybe they just aren't
> > capable of understanding everything- again, that is why you are needed.
> >
>
> I have to admit, there is a bit of truth to this, alot of people just don't
> have the time to read 18 different documents in 18 different locations. Man
> pages, info pages, FAQs, HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, READMEs, INSTALL docs, package
> descriptions... it is a bit daunting. I do feel that anyone installing
> anything shoud be up for some reading, but just how much reading is the
> question. I'm not even going to think about complaining about the amount of
> documentation, coming from systems that have zip, I know from experience how
> helpful good documentation can be. But I wonder if maybe there is a better
> way to organize the volumunous information given to us in a standard, easy to
> use, heirarchial fashion.
>
> -Jay
>
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