[arachne] Re: D*** BasicLinux -documentation-

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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:13:26 +1030 GMT, Greg Mayman wrote:

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> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:51:25 -0500 (EST), ewalt@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>>> Yes, I have subscribed. But something -- personal pride maybe --
>>> has prevented me from going to them and saying that it is a heap
>>> of crap where almost nothing works.

>> You might want to phrase that a bit more diplomatically!

> Let me try it this way:

> While maintaining the right of any person to disagree with the
> statements herein, it is the considered opinion of this person
> that BasicLinux, in the form that it was supplied, seems to lack
> the integrity that would make it entirely satisfactory for
> sustained use as an operating system in its own right.

> Is that better?

>> Basic Linux does work. I've used it. But I don't know about 3.40.

> Well, I agree: BL3.40 does work. But it has some nasty
> limitations. I've used it, up to the point where it failed.

Might it be that you have a lack of documentation (or did not read the
manual)?
I often declared programs "worthless" because I could not get them
working. However other people do use them and if they give some helping
hand or comment these "worthless" programs became working for me too.

Even DOS often give me some headaches... lack of documentation :-((
Although I have several books on DOS none of them explains fully what
all the commands do...
Ray has to tell me the difference between > and >> in a command.
Ray told me that one can not call an .exe in a batch file.

Etcetera and so on...

What is happening behind the icons in windows is a complete ridle to me
and I think that will be the same with Linux.

Regards, Bastiaan



> I followed the instructions I was given to install some add-ons I
> wanted to try out.

> Two failed to install after repeated downloads; surely every
> download couldn't be faulty if the original files are any good.

> Two others installed and worked exactly as expected.

> And two other apparently installed and won't work.

> Then I copied in one set of Linux HowTo HTML files, and tried to
> add another set, and there was no room.

> I am informed that the only answer is to delete the installation,
> and start again from scratch with a blank slate. And be prepared
> to do it again every time it fills up.

> And this is supposed to be an operating system? More like a nasty
> joke!

> I'll be more than fair and admit that maybe there is an answer to
> all this. Maybe BL _can_ be made to work in a proper and _useful_
> manner.

> Glenn McCorkle says the answer is to forget BL and go for the big
> stuff which will require _AT_LEAST_2_Gigabytes_ of hard disk
> space!

> SHEEEEEESH!!! That's almost as much bloatware as the later
> flavours of Windoze....

>> I bet there's something simple that's being overlooked somehow.

> So direct me to someone who really _IS_ using BL3 and I shall take
> advice from them.

> And if they tell me to delete it and start again every time it
> fills up, I'll.... I don't know what I'll do.

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