Re: SLFS book chapter proposals

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 01:19:47AM +0200, Christos Gioran wrote:
> 
> I vote: Let's build a self contained book, that if read will make the
> reader owner of a very secure box and enough knowledge to keep it that
> way.

You are contradicting yourself from before. We can give self-contained
instructions on how to build a system, but we can't teach much about it
without tons of verbage. This is where I think the links to already
existing resources comes in handy. Let's face it, neither LFS nor BLFS
strive to teach you how to use your system. It's such a large topic that
can never fully be realized without massive amounts of dedicated
researchers and editors. However, we can teach some general concepts and
practices, and give the reader the base needed to then continue in his
quest for further knowledge.

How many people really learned how linux worked from reading LFS versus
how many used LFS as a springboard to greater understanding? LFS and
BLFS are great at teaching some basics and giving the reader enough
understanding to then seek further knowledge without getting lost in all
the noise that is out there.

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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has
never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are
arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

- H. L. Mencken

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