Seriously. Your credentials might be enought to get it read. (They don't care about my otherworldly experience with Big Science 'systems', I suspect.)

Precisam\ufffdnte: after time-out, implement the Mac OS-X scenario (if RH et al are smart enough .?.) And that IS the proper order for any new OS IMnsHO: *FIRST* get the $&*(#$ Thing UP. Next, as you learn what Else you need, or think might be kewl: ADD that. Modularly. [the FATAL flaw in all Billy n'Bally thought from the first, and ongoing. May it lead them to the earliest possible grave - if all goes well soon.]

Couple this philosophy with the hiring of several very good technical writers - documenting all the add-in modules, why you'd want them, where their .inis are yada yada. (And a few portals - ALSO written by English-speakers and not 'computer science' drop-outs. [Hah! talk boutcher oxymorons] Let these handle links, mirror-sites maintained du jour - for the aforementioned add-on bits & pieces.)

Then you'd have actually have: Tyro, Intermediate, Pro levels - and without stepping on the peculiar talents of anyone.

Is this kinda stuff particularly hard for folks to grok, after they've run C++ for a while? Does something in that experience.. break certain neuronal common-sense connections - after too much exposure to, say jump indirect to self ? (and other brain loops)

{sheesh} .. at least in octal, ya could memorize the mnemonics - but ya sure wouldn't expecta a &*#$* User to do that. Well, These 'marketers' Would. They think their customers all long to compile; what most want is to surf and generate illegible e-mails, to make the office-time pass less agonizingly slowly.



Ashton
Marketing Dumbth R'Us Ltd.

Like too: the PHB illusion of having Done something! - goes to the heart of modern Murican sinecures for the Suited set.