Re: what i've learned, and explanation.

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

tom@tomd.org wrote:
...
> read for those who have little familiarlity with Linux.  Personally, I
> don't think either of those resources were of any help to me until I was
> at least 3 months in, and I had a pretty solid background in general
> computing concepts, and the willingness to spend a lot of time reading this
> stuff.

  how long did it take you to learn to read&write? were books helpful
since the beginning? some things are just not simple and take some
time... (and yes, some things in linux are unneccessarily complicated)

> I guess my point is that people who just brush off requests for help and
> say, "the man pages and HOWTOs should be good enough", are avoiding the

  nobody said that. everybody ackowledged that the documentation needs
work... (just like the rest of the linux)

	erik