At 07:22 PM 10/8/2002 +0300, you wrote: >Before asking to this mailing list please
I usually spend an hour or two poking around before asking the list. Not everyone has such an understanding wife. >* browse the table of contents of RedHat excellent manuals >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ Moving over from Solaris/HPUX as I am, I consider the manual average at best. Especially anything related to the GUIs. >* search on google Pretty good source of information but frequently time consuming to find the correct tidbit of information. For example, I spent two hours trying to figure out the correct syntax for turning sound off in modules.conf. This was a process of trial and error because, as nearly as I can tell, it is not specified anywhere. Certanly not in the man pages or the RedHat doc. I came up with: alias sound-service-0-0 off and now I read that maybe that is not correct. >* see the distribution release notes if something doesn't work >anymore as it used to after upgrading >* search on freshmeat.net if you're looking for an application > >If no answer found, ask here. This will keep the list focused >on problems which haven't been solved yet, being a source of >inspiration for where things can improve. Before starting my move to RedHat last week, I had accumulated several months of messages from this list: over 4000. I searched on that as a major source of information and it has been my most useful resource. I've got the RedHat-in mailbox down to 770 messages and have saved off 530 in tech-archive/redhat that I want to keep around for future searches. My primary responsibility is not Unix Admin. It is Oracle development/DBA. I am in the process of getting Oracle 9.2 working on RedHat (already working in Win2k) and my application ported up from Oracle 7.3.4. FWIW, my Oracle-in mailbox is now stacked up with 5600 messages to review: Oracle tools: 3800 Oracle designer: 1280; Oracle Java only 200 (thankfully). I've recently added HTML-Mason, mod_perl, Apache and suse-Oracle to the mailing lists I scan. I've dropped Solaris Intel. This is all possible now because I'm way under-employed. I believe it is in the interest of the Open Source community to lower the barriers for entry as much as possible. So, IMHO, I believe that: 1. No question is too stupid. Someone who is a member of our community or wants to join it is participating in that community. We do not want to act like a high school clique. 2. If you know a question has an answer that is easily found provide the relevant search term without belittling the person who had the temerity to ask a question. Many people of this list are very good at this response. 3. Remember that things simply are not as easy on RedHat as they are on Winows. I've been in IT for 18 years and am (REALLY) intelligent and this RedHat migration has not been easy for me. I am on my third clean install on one of my test servers. If we demand that every Linux acolyte spend an hour or to looking for information we can provide in a few seconds then we will restrict the growth of our community. There is power in numbers. Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.restek.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
