how to jigdo download a fedora 8 re-spin in one easy step?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Dec 30 00:58:41 UTC 2007
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 11:52 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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
i will (sort of) agree with you. yes, finley's website had/has
piles of cool advice on how to do things. my only beef with it is
that it is simply too verbose. here's an example -- how to install
yumex:
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Yumex
sure, that explanation is correct but, man, it's wordy. what's
wrong with just saying: "as root, run
# yum -y install yumex"
seriously, how many times do you need to be told to open a terminal
and type "su"? yes, i realize that's being annoyingly picky, but why
take 15 lines to say what can be said just as accurately in two?
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Home page: http://crashcourse.ca
Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook
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