[CLUG] Linux distros.

[Ronan Kirby]

Gaeroid,

Your absolutely right. A lot of the visible documentation does not lend 
its self well to this kind of problem solving.

I don't know if there is a Suse equivalent, but Red Hat have a knowledge 
base which is very extensive. I just punched in USB for a quick test...

  Topic Name:     Get Started     Installation      

Q:  How do I add and begin using a USB Zip drive to my Red Hat Linux 
  machine?

A:  To set up a USB Zip drive, plug it into the machine, log in
    [SNIP!]

...most of the entries are in this form. Might be worth using - 
kbase.redhat.com.

Hope this helps,

Ronan

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Gearoid O'Laoi wrote:

> As a long time computer user, and non-professional programmer for many
> years, my biggest gripe about Linux is NOT that it doesn't work out of
> the box, but that the help is written in a non-problem solving way.
> The help simply describes the "anatomy" of the system, failing totally
> to deal with the "diseases".
> 
> e.g. It should have things like...
> 
> If your USB ports hang the system,
> 
> check the following.
> 
> It doesn't.
> I now have Ubuntu doing what I need it for, 
> 
> i.e. accessing the internet and wordprocessing in which macros I've
> defined convert standard Irish into old Irish type with the dots
> instead of Hs.
> 
> It works with USB, but slowly. I can't find out how to speed it up.
> Suse would not work reliably on 2 of my computers with USB, at all.
> Suse 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2.
> 
> Suse is probably the word for Donkey Shit in Bayerisch!
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