Re: Booting Debian/testing fails
On Sunday 04 February 2007 16:11, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:18:20 +0000
>
> Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:
> > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > So does this mean that the Debian community, while helpful to
> > > newbies that know enough how to ask a question, would be happier if
> > > newbies who don't just went to one of those projects instead?
> >
> > I hope not! Perhaps we need a debian-newbie-users list? It would need
> > some more-experienced users prepared to monitor the list and offer
> > "gentle" advice. The NewbieDOC project used to have a list like this.
> > Unfortunately, it ceased to function as it lost a critical mass of
> > more-experienced users, and had to be closed a couple of years ago.
>
> I suggested this myself about a year ago, but there are reasons not to
> do this. One of them is the reason your own list didn't work.
>
For the interested, A summary of why there is no newbie list can be found at
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html
under "Why is there no separate list for newbies? Can you create one? Should I
create one?"
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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