On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Viral Mehta <Viral.Mehta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > let us talk the kernel and not the culturalism.. Kernel Newbies is about culturalism, it is about the open source and Linux culture. This is often the first mailing listusers go w ho are a. potential/current kernel developers(minus the big wigs) or b. confused "Linux users" who can not yet differentiate the Linux kernel and the user space programs running on top of the Linux operating system. The word newbie in the title is deceiving because a newbie to the Linux kernel is often very advanced in computing in general. In group "a" there are a few types of people: 1. College students to lazy to do homework. 2. People too lazy to sort through the forums for the answer. 3. People who see Linux as the new cool thing and want to learn it, but do not even know how to program yet. 4. Kernel programmers who have been doing this for a while, but are new to Linux and open source. 5. People who like solving kernel problems, helping others, and learning new parts of the kernel while helping others. 6. People promoting their personal consulting ventures and helping others at the same time(I personally am cool with this group of people and most of them are very professional about it) 7. etc.... Remember sometimes it is obvious how to find the answer in Google if you know the actual terms to use. In group "b" people need to be kindly directed to the proper location where their question may be more relevant. > and also may be what are the ways to go forward to have footer in first mail after the subscription explaining or giving some FAQ links..... The following link is very good http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html but the target audience of this is at people who asks simple questions which Google returns answer for in first response. They probably will not read this whole post it is a bit verbose. I think it is still worth linking to, but maybe something else a bit less complex may be helpful also. In closing I would just like to remind people when and why they started using Linux. I have been programming in Linux for 10+ years and kernel specific for 5+ years. I still consider myself ans "kernel Newbie" because the kernel is so complex. Remember everyone was a newbie once. I read the book "Understanding the Linux kernel" 5 times before i even understood what it was saying. I hope that as Linux continues to grow in popularity it will be able to maintain that community feeling. This is one of my favorite mailing lists and I have only been fully active for a year or two, but have been finding answers here for many years by searching the archives and random returns from Google searches.. I like this list because it is small enough that I can read every email and most the people are a little more friendly than many other lists. I hope we can keep it that way and adapt to the increasing popularity of Linux as it becomes more mainstream. Thanks to anyone who took the time to read my unexpectedly extended response, John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
