how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:52 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > >   by the way, the above is still not annoyance-free:
> >
> > OK....
> >
> > So, I gather from all of this that the existing documentation,
> > links, and whatever doesn't measure up to what you need or expect.
> > Would that be a fair summary?
> >
> > Is the question then, how can documentation be improved for the
> > average user?
> 
> all i'm suggesting is that it took an inordinately long time to figure
> out what should have been a two-minute exercise.  i'm guessing that,
> in most cases, readers aren't interested in a long-winded overview of
> things -- they just want to know what commands to run to get
> something done, which is all i wanted in the first place.
> 
> in short, what people might want is a fedora "cookbook" with tight,
> concise recipes that just plain work, out of the box.  if they choose
> to read up later on the underlying operations, then that's their
> choice.

A wonderful example of that is http://www.stanton-finley.net/ which is
clear, concise and the content works every time and, for the most part,
still does. Too bad he went to the Ubuntu scheme of things after FC5.
Ric
 
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