Subject: Re: Suggestion
To: None <wojtek@3miasto.net>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/30/2001 01:10:33
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:18:36AM +0200, wojtek@3miasto.net wrote:
> > > > like. Of course many of them does not want to dive into important
> > > 
> > > too much. and it's major reason that linux is getting worse and worse.
> > 
> > The implementation might be bad, but the idea behind a HOWTO is very good.
> 
> often the ideas are good. look at new howtos in linux - it doesn't explain
> well what you are doing, only what you should type etc.

So the challenge for you is to write some HOWTOs with problem sets
that actually teach the user how to accomplish the task, rather than
just giving them specific lines to type on specific occasions.  Teach
them to think.  (This is a lot harder than most people think it is.)