Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Brenda J. Butler wrote:I'm not complaining about open source stuff (on my home systems that's all I use and I'm very grateful for it), but open source has changed from when we learned it. It's hard to learn it that way any more, because lots of people now write this stuff for a living. A hobbyist can't keep up any more.I'm not really sure I understand your logic. Because there's more material available, it's harder to learn? I don't agree with thatlogic.
Do I really want to step into this . . . ?I can't speak for Brenda, but I did have a sense of what she was trying to say. Although I agree with Zonker that more material is better, I have found with my own problems (particularly sound issues) that much of the documentation is simply wrong (because it's out of date). That does make it "harder to learn" for the newbie who has honestly tried to find answers. And yes, I know most docs have a "You can find the most recent version of this document 'here'" line somewhere near the top, but I as a newbie glossed over the intro sections, and didn't find that line for several months, and even when I did find it, I still found that in some cases the newest doc was still out of date.
Mind you, I'm not complaining (my dog ate my flameproof suit, you understand); I'm just trying to hopefully illuminate what Brenda was saying. Or at least that's my take on it, but then, I'm an idiot and don't usually know what I'm talking about, so feel free to ignore this line of reasoning.
Kent(who doesn't write real documentation, but has been known to answer posts on this list with hopefully semi-useful answers as part of his contribution to the community)