On Tuesday 22 April 2003 14:03, David Krider wrote: > Just for instance... Just off the top of my head... Has anyone who's > claiming there's a wealth of quick, friendly Linux help out there ever > tried asking a question on #linux on EFNet? HA! I rest *my* case. I'll > have scars for the rest of my life on that score. > > I gave up trying to use IRC for Linux help 5 years ago, and I had > already been administrating Unix for 4! (So it wasn't that I was totally > clueless, either about what I was doing, *or* about how to ask for help.) > > All of that being said, this list is the most helpful place -- in > general -- I've ever seen for Linux help, in any form, bar none. So > thank you all for that. My point is just that, when it's good, it's > "ok," but when it's bad, it's teeth-achingly nightmarish. (And it's > hardly ever stellar, to boot.) I find plenty in #redhat on freenode (previously OPN). I'm a chan mod for that channel, after being a regular for probably 2 years now. It's one of the friendliest, most helpfull channels I've come across, for many things, not just Red Hat. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
