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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Help for a newbie
  • Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:37:20 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Greg Mayman wrote:

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 04:11:17 +0000 (UTC), sindi keesan wrote:

I agree that he is an ingrate, but he still performed a useful service by
pointing out where newbies have problems.

Why are you calling me an ingrate? I am very grateful for what
useful advice I have received here.

Maybe our mails crossed, but after at least two of us tried to answer your questions, you wrote again saying how impossible BL was to use. That struck me as ungrateful. If you still have your first couple of mails, read them over from the viewpoint of the rest of us, particularly Steven.

But I have also received so much abuse, most of it over the fact
that I _dared_ to express my frustration with a bit of software
that wouldn't work, and with the lack of any helpful
documentation.

Try expressing your frustration in different terms, letting us know that you do not know how to use BL, and could not find the solutions in the available documentation, not that BL is unusable.

Let me say just this: A chain is only as strong as its weakest
link. The weak link with BasicLinux, at least with the version I
downloaded, is its documentation which is frankly, m' dear,
APPALLING in its parcity!

Do Aussies pronounce parcity to rhyme with paucity?

How would you modify the website, the readme, and the HINTS to make them work better?

I don't know if he actually got our emails (or postings to the archive) -
can you tell?

Yes, I am getting the emails, eventually.

But I have a life outside of emailing, and sometimes I don't connect
for days at a time.

That's the way I do things.

If you don't like it, then that's just too bad!

This is what I meant about attitude. At least read everything people have written before you start replying.

Yes he was a jerk, but an informative one.

Maybe I was. I am sorry if I upset all of you.

I accept the apology if you promise not to do it again ;=)

But the abuse I have received for daring to criticise BasicLinux
has more than made up for it.

I think only one person abused you, the others expressed annoyance that you complained of bad advice, that came from bad advisors that you chose.

Why can't you people realize that someone who has never seen BL
before is going to find it hard, especially when there is no
documentation readily visible with the download?

You don't really mean 'no' documentation.

There are other programs which come with less documentation and refer you to their website. Links browser is much worse documented.

I would like to see more info at the website about how the versions differ (ramdisk, loop and ext2). And more specific instructions on how to load X before trying to run Links2 graphical, Sylpheed, etc. And the fact that Abiword and Links2 need at least 15-bit color and Xvesa does not work with 8-bit color.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org




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