[plug] "Kits" as a tuitional tool.

[John Knight]

Personally, I love the idea. I'm a writer myself (mostly Tux Magazine at the 
moment) and would be very interested in joining such a project, assuming you 
want to publish it of course.... ;)

A problem we face in the Linux community is that we are reliant on people 
who are already well past the learning curve, and they see the documentation 
and howtos (and so on...) they've setup as adequate, when in reality, quite 
often new users are totally baffled. Standard experienced user repsonse to 
newbie question:
"Just use (insert program name), compile some new modules and install them 
to your kernel...."
Standard newbie response to experienced user's answer:
"Okay, thanks a lot."
<thoughtrunningthroughhead>Eh? I'm going back to Windows, I only wanted to 
watch TV!</thoughtrunningthroughhead>

This is how Tux Magazine started. :)

"...it was brilliant, there was three up against a thousand, and boy, did we 
give those three heaps!"