On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 01:16:09PM -0700, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > Petra> ... it seems to me to be ... sink or swim .... How about > > Petra> ... Heres a life jacket to get you through the first storm... > > > > You are great at analogies and generalizations, however, some > > specifics would really help. I would say Pikes "The UNIX programming > > Environment" or the LDP's basic books are the life jacket. > > I'd say the best life jacket is the 'man' and '(tk)info' commands. What more > can a beginner that really want to learn need? I learnt that way... Sure, it > took me a long time, but now everything (almost any way :) is more or less > subconcuius. I had Running Linux. Many man pages still confuse me. Most don't have a long time to learn, they need to know what they need to know now---otherwise they will happily continue to use windoze.. That's the majority of users. If we don't like the Wintel duopoly, we have to provide a viable alternative. It's not as hard as you would expect it to be, debian is much better than manpages and info documents. A few little things can still be done to make Debian even better for new users---not necessarily the clueless newbie type---that will not interfere with those who don't need any or all of those little additions. Debian has a good middle level that keeps the sysadmin from having to do a lot of mundane admin tasks, but it doesn't hide them. Any high level tools for newbies should use the current midlevel tools to do the work for compatibility.
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