From: pdh@netcom.com (P D H) Subject: Re: Questions about virtual mem. Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 05:50:32 GMT
jmward@ucrengr (jonathan ward) writes:
>: Where is Linux available?
>Try sunsite.unc.edu or tsx-11.mit.edu. A few words of advice: while
>you're on these site, pick up a FAQ before posting again here - I don't
>have a problem with answering you, but many people on this group will flame
>you for posting questions that are answered in the FAQ; this forum is really
>for posting questions and solutions to problems not listed in the FAQ. If you
>are unaware of where to get the FAQ, it is posted every so often in the
>comp.os.linux.announce forum. After all, that's the whole point of the FAQ -
>to answer starting questions so that bandwidth isn't wasted on needless common
>questions(this is a _VERY_ busy group. :-)
You won't find me flaming such people.
The comp.os.linux group is getting very big, and though regular readers
will not realize this JUST BECAUSE they are regular readers, as newbie
will have a very difficult time finding the FAQ. I've been away a while
and I ran into the following problems just finding the FAQ:
1. There were over 13000 articles in this newsgroup to sift through.
The newbie may or may not be fully versant in the tools of reading
news to speed this up.
2. I tried a regexp (key "=" in nn) to find the FAQ. It selected a lot
of articles, which I proceeded to read (key "Z" in nn so I stay here
when done). I read through all those articles. Some referred to the
FAQ, but there was no FAQ.
3. The newsgroup news.answers is supposed to be the universal resource.
I searched for comp.os.linux there. Nothing.
4. There is PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU, an FTP repository of all kinds of usenet
stuff. I did find the FAQ here, but with duplication that I questioned
and funny names. The duplicates are really duplicates (i.e. a waste
of space).
5. After some further reading I finally bumped into the FAQ here. The
keywords I expected were absent. I therefore recommend to whoever
posts the FAQ (now or later) to please put the follwoing keywords
in the SUBJECT of the FAQ postings: "faq" and "comp.os.linux" (the
latter for readers of news.answers).
Maybe someday, I too, can enjoy the pleasures of flaming newbies for dumb
questions that are already answered. But I will hold back until it becomes
easy to find the FAQ.
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