Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
#1735 closed defect (invalid)
The book should not recommend the LFS LiveCD
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
People using the official LFS LiveCD create majority of traffic on the #lfs-support channel. That is because the LiveCD is much easier to set up than a regular Linux distro, and thus a test of the essential UNIX skills is missing.
In order to prevent this effect, the book should say something negative about the LiveCD. E.g., that installation will take much longer, or that one has to start from scratch if anything goes wrong. No matter if this is untrue or applies to regular distros too. Just enforce the skills check.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid |
|---|---|
| Status: | new → closed |
This is not a bug in the book. If you don't want to help them that's fine, but IMO we already do enough to spell out what is required in order to successfully build the LFS book. We can't help the fact that folks ignore the pre-reqs and go in way over their heads.
Thats a kind of russian humour,isn't :)
Now seriously that brings the question,yet another time,what we really want.
Do we need popularity,or quality? I for one,i don't really have a problem with the former,but only as a side effect of our quality.
Every project is extremelly well documented and if someone really wants to find the solution to his problem a little reasearch first is a prerequisite to continue with a support question,through our official channels (irc/mailing lists).
It's the same kind of thing that crish just mentioned in his ticket.
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1737