Eberhard Moenkeberg
We were not talking about beginners - the course was about changing hardware pieces.
Ok, it's not the plain vanilla beginner stuff, right. But it's not that hard either, is it? And if the board crashes and you move the disk to another board you have the very same problem. I stepped into this thread because I believe Linux has world domination with Linux geeks already (and I dare to count myself into that group) --- so how do we improve the joy of Linux with people who'd like to just use it without understanding all of it's inner beauty? I think features like the one discussed here are needed if we want to bring the fun of using Linux to a wider, less adept audience. I think we have a great culture of helping each other interactively, in mail threads, in IRC, or even in web forums (shudder ;), a culture of documenting what Worked For Me in blogs and such. But some open source products IMNSHO rely too much on that interactive documentation around it. These products don't explain themselves in critical situations, nor repair themselves, they don't give pointers what to possibly do next in error messages or warnings. And I think we as the creators of such products have the choice to make them more accessible or more obscure to relative beginners. I'm very happy that you help maintaining gwdg bandwidth to provide Linux to these folks. I'd be even more happy if we could rely on your ummm moral support :) to make Linux not only more available but also more accessible to them. Do you also see many not-so-beginner Linux users to really benefit from the self-explanatory or self-repairing features discussed? What harm would they do to more adept users? I don't understand the objections. S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org