Re: site FAQ - question missing...

On Monday 28 July 2003 22:30, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> > Indeed it's not. My point was merely that lnx-bbc, as the boot
> > message says, is a tool for those who know what they're doing or if
> > they don't know, have the nous to investigate the matter in a
> > reasoned way. 'man cdrecord' would be the very first place to start
> > in such a reasoned investigation and as you pointed out, it would
> > have answered the question. If someone is unwilling/unable to carry
> > out such a reasoned investigation, I just don't think that lnx-bbc
> > is the tool for him.
>
> 	Well gawrsh, Niall.  Aren't you the fancy-pants linucks
> expert?  The LNX-BBC is handy, small, and powerful.  Just because you
> objected to making it more useful to people doesn't mean that it can't
> be.

Hold on there bald eagle, and let's remember where this thread came from. 
Someone said that the FAQ was missing instructions as to how to use cdrecord 
to burn a BBC. I merely pointed out that IMHO if you weren't up to using 'man 
cdrecord' to find that out, maybe LNX-BBC wasn't for you. I have absolutely 
no objection to making LNX-BBC more useful to people, the original question 
had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the usefulness (or otherwise) of LNX-BBC 
and I fail to see how my remarks could be construed as objecting to its being 
made more useful to people.

> 	Consider that there are easily a thousand programs on this
> little disc.  How many people really know which ones are there?  The
> vast majority of the IRC channel traffic is people asking "Hey, could
> you put <program> on the BBC?  Then it would really ROCK!", to which
> we usually say something like "It's had that since 1.5!"  We
> definitely have an interface problem in how to communicate to the user
> what software is available.  This is universal across Unix experience
> levels.

This is a valid point - I'm using LNX-BBC for a little while now, and I still 
come across some goodies. I don't object at all to telling people about 
those, but I don't apologise for my views that it IS an expert's tool, and a 
very good one at that. It is NOT very good as a Linux on a CD demonstration - 
for this, Knoppix and its derivatives are much better.



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Niall  O Broin