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On 9/18/05, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote: |
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> This is something that's been in the back of my mind for a while, but I |
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> haven't |
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> really come up with any good solutions for. |
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> With the release of the installer, we will be getting a lot of users who |
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> have |
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> never done a manual install and haven't/won't read the handbook. This is |
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> obviously not desirable due to the increased amount of dumb questions that |
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> will |
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> flood #gentoo and the gentoo-user ML. |
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> My idea was for a "quiz" from the handbook before the user is allowed to |
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> use the |
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> installer. This would force them to atleast skim the handbook before using |
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> the |
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> installer. This idea has been met with a lot of resistance by other |
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> developers, |
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> even though I had a lot of support for it about 6-8 months back. |
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> Do anyone else have a better idea? |
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Hmm... I'm not sure I know what you are saying about the impending flood of |
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noobs but I don't quite agree with the quiz. Perhaps we should have a |
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required reading similar to a license agreement that explains the fact |
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Gentoo isn't an easy distro for those new to Linux that you have to read to |
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use the installer. I'm not sure that there is really a good answer to this |
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question. |
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-Mike |
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Michael E. Crute |
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Software Developer |
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SoftGroup Development Corporation |
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Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. |
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