From: wade@nb.rockwell.com (Wade Guthrie) Subject: SLS and Linux Plaudits (was "your SLIP...") Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 16:54:20 GMT
Not like this newsgroup needs more bandwidth, but. . .
In article <1993Feb14.044120.14412@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>
> I got the same response from people after adding shadow passwd to SLS.
> People, welcome to unix. Your first source of documentation is the
> README's etc. From there proceed directly to the man pages.
> I found term documentation to be, like shadow passwd documentation,
> very good. The only thing missing was a neon sign saying "look here, look here".
I've seen lots of complaints about SLS and other packages around Linux.
I'd like, on the other hand, to throw plaudits at Peter et.al. for doing
a wonderful job (I come not to bury Caesar, but to praise him). I down-
loaded SLS recently and, even-though I have an unusual system (all SCSI
is the primary abnormality), the only big problems I had have been my
own stupidity (which runs pretty rampant, I must admit). I got Linux
up and running pretty darned quickly!
Thanks Linus! Thanks Peter!
> On the constructive side, I am working on a "tenderfoot" doc for new
> users to accompany SLS. It should tell them things like the above.
Yeah, the only complaint I have (and given the wonderful capabilities
and smoothness of operation I've seen -- I feel pretty bad about saying
anything) is that the documentation is a little on the poor side. When
'fdisk' didn't work (with a "can't find /dev/hda" error), I tried
'fdisk /dev/sda'. It would have been cool if, in the docs, it had said
something to the effect of "Type 'fdisk'. 'fdisk' can take a device
name as an argument (if none, the default is /dev/hda); for all you
SCSI types, try 'fdisk /dev/sda'.
I also noticed things in the documentation that said 'SCSI doesn't work
with this'; but, since SCSI is all I have, I tried them anyway and they
worked. It'd be really nifty if the docs hadn't caused me to fret what
I was a-doin' (but given the choice of A-software up-to-data and docs a
little behind, or B-software not living up to what the docs say -- well,
I got what I would have wanted).
-- Wade Guthrie | Trying to program on MS-DOS is like trying wade@nb.rockwell.com | to shave with a chain-saw. Me be not speaking for the Rock. |