[Arm-netbook] mele a1000 - best way to get newbies up and running

[lkcl luke]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:28 PM, moo cow <magcrap at gmail.com> wrote:

> Remember as well guys that newbies will struggle to even setup a suitable
> compilation environment and go through the process of getting the source
> compiling it and installing it on the target system.

 moo: that's just normal.  it's just the way it is, and that really is
the end of it.  you can take short-cuts, for example by downloading
someone else's pre-compiled XYZ, but the moment you begin to step
further and further outside that "pre-compiled box", the more you have
to know and/or the more instructions you have to run, and the more
experimentation (both as an individual and as a group) is required.

 right now, this list and the rhombus-tech wiki are *specifically* for
people who *specifically* are prepared to go through the list of
tasks, with the persistence and the patience required.

 i've just read neal stephenson's book "REAMDE", so have encountered a
new word.  the type of people we're looking for are "autodidacts".
or, as a *group* we are looking for "autodidacticism".

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism

there _will_ be forums.  these will *not* be on the rhombus-tech.net
domain name.  the forums will be there to separate and clearly
deliniate the "newbies who cannot teach themselves" from the "newbies
who are willing to go at it until they make it work".

this is why i keep on being so damn persistent that people record
things on the wiki, because that is the sum of the knowledge of all of
us, as we're moving forward, learning things as we go.

so.

what you learned, moo: did you record it, accurately, on the wiki, so
that *other people* don't have to go through the exact same process
that *you* went through?

l.