From: janl@ifi.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt) Subject: PLEASE READ THIS: How to find answers to your linux questions. Date: 1 Jan 1993 17:07:26 GMT
Much of the volume on comp.os.linux devoted to asking questions that
have been answered tens, hundreds or even thousands of times. The
answers can be found in these documents:
INFO-SHEET (what is linux, features, hardware, getting linux)
meta-faq (linux faq, linux newsgroups, ftp, bbs'es, about which
files to get when installing linux, mailing lists,
++ quite a lot of other info and pointers)
faq_<Date> The complete linux faq. Contains answers on: Linux, linux
instalation, common problems, linux and dos, more problems,
hints, features, gcc, scsi, X11, networking, and emacs
Both the INFO-SHEET and meta-faq are posted regularly on
comp.os.linux, you should be able to find it if you search backwards
thru comp.os.linux for "INFO-SHEET" or "META-FAQ" in the subject line.
The faq is _large_ but very well organized, and face it: you have to
read _some_ docs to keep your system running smoothly, and the faq is
a kind of a minimum.
The problem is that the people that know the answers grow tired of
answering the same questions time after time and then stop
answering... This is not what anyone want, so please RTFM before
asking... and we know the FM "sucks raw eggs" but make a effort.
If people could start doing this life on comp.os.linux would become
better and maybe we could get rid of all the split posts too :)
Nicolai