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

[Dotan Cohen]

> 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.
>

Exactly. The distinction between noob and experienced posts is too
blurry today to justify two lists. Especially when there is
essentially _no_traffic_ on the noobs list (I subscribed yesterday and
there have been no messages so far).

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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