Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:59:27 +0000 (GMT) | From | "James A. Sutherland" <> | Subject | Re: my first post to the list - newbie alert |
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, bert hubert wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:52:22AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > is there a more suitable mailing list for me to sign up for? debian has a > > mailing list both for package maintainers and those who are trying to learn > > how to be package maintainers. > > > > is there a similar thing with the kernel mailing list? > > If you ask the right questions and take care to have RTFM'd, as you already > appear to be doing reading the book you mentioned, people here are generally > very friendly. > > Another great place to ask questions is on irc, see > http://www.kernelnewbies.org
Also try the techtalk mailing list on linuxchix - www.linuxchix.org, IIRC. A good place to ask "newbie" questions without being told to RTFM!
> > since i haven't signed on yet, can you please cc me the reply. if it turns > > out this is the correct list, i'll sign on pronto. > > For serious questions, this is definitely the place. For 'I can't be > bothered to read the source and find out how it works'-questions, you should > hire somebody :-)
Yep - a few companies now offer paid-for tech support of various supports. No idea what they're like, though...
James.
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