[64studio-devel] 64 Studio book

[Daniel James]

Hi Lee,

 > I suspect that one use for an
> instructional and official book would be to get the UI repaired or at
> least reinstalled. I can't imagine a Linux newbie trying to navigate
> the Linux info system.... Even more unlikely they could read a PDF
> file from the command prompt. Years ago, I suffered trying to read
> HTML 'how-tos' from a command prompt, as I had no browser to read HTML
> because I had no GUI for the browser to run in.

I do know what you mean. The command line is powerful for the 
experienced user, but being dumped at a login prompt is a sort of 
purgatory for newbies - they can't get the GUI, they can't even shut 
down the machine.

> Whatever you decide,
> remember the worst case for a newbie might just be no internet, no GUI
> and no Lynx/Links/W3C/MC/Emacs/whatever Linux professionals are using
> for commandline browsers

I think that's the value of a paper manual - it still works when your 
system is hosed :-)

Cheers!

Daniel