Re: New to Linux
A couple of comments.
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:15:08PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> >It's been my experience that most users never read the manual.
> Too much trouble. When something breaks, they find someone to
> fix it or tell them how to. No learning required.
If someone tells you how to, you've certainly learned something.
Haven't we all been to school?
> I'm really floored every once in a while by someone who can't get
> their email set up - but when you come right down to it, there is
> some trickiness to things like getting all the server names, port
> numbers, protocol selection, and passwords set up.
OK, a little survey here. How many of you use mutt, or
elm, or Evolution(?), and do your E-mail right from your
home computer? I do, and since my ISP -- not PatriotNet,
incidentally -- gives me a dynamic IP
address I have to use a "smart host"/'relay host' for
my E-mail to get anywhere. It has been my experience
that setting this up is very difficult, requiring a good knowledge
of what one's ISP requires, and what the proprietor of
one's relay host requires. My Postfix setting up took
quite a bit of work, and I bothered lots of people on the
Postfix E-list before I got it right.
> I'm not sure I'd recommend any flavor of Unix to someone without
> some general understanding of computers, except maybe a Mac. I'm
Those of us who are familiar with other countries know
that we are uniquely dominated by M$. Others get
familiar with IT much earlier, and I have the impression
that they are much better at it. I bet there are tons
of non-native-English speakers here; I wonder if they
will agree with this assertion.
> (apt still rules). I've watched one of my sons - the English major
> - ditch Windows for Arch Linux on his ancient Compaq laptop, learn
> the ins and outs of finding/installing drivers for various things,
> and teach himself some C and Python along the way - so you never
> know.
Great! I congratulate him; and you!
Best wishes,
Alan McConnell, in Silver Spring MD
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In<fnord> practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
P.S. Compare my .sig of today, just below<g>.
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Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
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