Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:42:07PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:

>The problem is, what is a noob question? If I've been running Linux
>since 2001 (and I have- Red Hat 7,1 with KDE 2) but I still don't know
>how to compile a kernel (and I don't), then am I a noob? If I install
>Kubuntu for a friend and he wants to write a driver for his home made
>serial sharks-wth-frickin-lasers controller is he a noob?

Compiling a Kernel was a new thing in 1995, when I started doing it. Now
it's usually not necessary for the average user to do, and IMHO saying that
you had to do it to access a device would scare away the average new user.

As for writing a driver, it's not a noob thing, it's not even an "expert" thing.

I expect that the number of people who have even read a driver's source code
on this list could be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Geoff.
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