From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 28 20:25: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from ns6.icdc.com (ns6.icdc.com [208.244.152.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B67537B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ultra2000 (peco.94.galaxy.icdc.com [208.244.152.222]) by ns6.icdc.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g214Orf06773; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:24:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <00bf01c1c0d9$2c5097c0$2c14fea9@ultra2000> From: "Chauncey Smith" To: "freebsd.org" , "Robert C. Blaylock" References: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:23:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I believe that the answer lies into what is asked, and how much homework was done. if someone asks "how do I recomplie my kernal". well there is a one page answer to that in the manual. It goes in to the 5 or 6 things to type to get it done and over with but not much into editing. If someone says "I edit and complied my kernel and my xyz doesn't work but the device is in there" well then you get into trouble shooting and more advance answers. Even if the new person has trouble with some unix commands like rm -fr folder that's a really great tool but recursive maybe a word they glance over at first and not understand and believe they'll get it later ( I speak from expericence on that one). Another reson may be lack or resources. If you know something is in a book and you're just going to retype whats in the book but don't have the book in front of you. What's easier? We know this is a none paying job as it is. So hey you go get the book and read what I would have typed. "I don't compile a kernel everyday I know where the cook book commands are when I need them why should you be any differnt? if you get the book. The same book I use your problems are solved." ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert C. Blaylock To: Annelise Anderson ; TheUaRT Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:06 PM Subject: RE: FreeBSD > I agree with TheUart. I have just sat back and watched for the last few months and it seems like there are a lot of people that dont want to be bothered with "simple" questions while they are chating with there friends in IRC. If people dont want to be bothered by simple questions then why dont they just use a private room? For myself I prefer to RTFM... but if people are asking questions isnt that a good thing? > > Rob > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message