Newbie query: Ubuntu vs openSUSE

[Nils Kassube]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On 12/25/2011 02:01 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:23:27PM +0530, Rameshwar Kr. Sharma 
wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Robert Holtzman<holtzm at cox.net>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >>>> Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not a troll,
> >>>> before you leap to post a question to this, or any other, list
> >>>> when you get stuck, *please* read
> >>>> 
> >>>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#rtfm
> >>> 
> >>> Bad, not a good language, behave like Liam! Shame on you!
> >> 
> >> I have no idea what you're talking about!
> > 
> > I'm not sure, but I think he means the way the text is written.
> > IMHO it intimidates people, especially newbies. When I first read
> > that text, I thought the author meant to say: "Don't ask questions
> > unless you have spent a long time to do everything else possible
> > to find a solution. And if you then really need to ask, prove to
> > us that you have done your homework." Therefore I would never
> > point anyone to that text even though the contents is useful. It
> > is just the way it is written which makes it a bad text.
> 
> But, no matter how blunt it is, you have to admit it is a universal
> net-norm. Just maybe reading it once is a good thing so someone knows
> just why they are getting panged on. Call it "Tough Love". And, as
> soon as you state it's a bad text, then it can be ignored.

Granted, I didn't use the right words because it isn't really a bad 
text. Maybe I should have better written it more like "the link 
shouldn't be used without a disclaimer concerning the style of the 
text".


Nils