Re: my first post to the list - newbie alert

[James A. Sutherland]

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.