2009/10/10 david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>
Kim Cascone wrote:
>> Sadly though, the linux community still has many people who scream RTFM
>> when people ask for help.
>>
> I find this has become rampant in the Linux community - whereas back in
> 2006 when I started tinkering with Ubuntu on a PPC this was not the case...
> there has been a huge influx of people who like brow beating someone
> else in order to feel smarter e.g. better or superior to others...this
> is weenie behavior
Part of the geek culture is that it's good to learn new things, good to
do things yourself, and everyone should be learning new things ...
> and it's a shame that this sort of attitude exists, especially in the
> music/audio FOSS community where educating others is imperative to
> keeping our community growing and being innovative
--
David
gnome@hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
And it will always remain to be so, until at least the Linux kernel is forked into a Linux-kernel-for-desktop where a MySQL regression is at the bottom of the TODO =p
Anyway topic-diversion should stop here.
I've just installed Fedora to a 32GB UFD, and I'm looking to integrate CCRMA with it. The
liveusb-creator is the most intuitive of the lot, and the final output is neatly arranged into 4 folders. Persistence is seamless; I don't have to answer questions to save anything. It just works. Ubuntu on the other hand dumps a crapload of files to the UFD.