[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote / napísal(a):
Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd scribbled on Wednesday, September 03,
2008 11:13 PM:
2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just the
blind leading the blind.
I've noticed that sometimes only a not-so-new-newbie can
Romeo Ninov a écrit :
Absolute true, but very often newbie ever if find/detect the problem
give stupid/dangerous/senseless solution/idea.
Reminds me of what happens in Ubuntu forums and the likes on a daily basis.
User A: Help! 3D acceleration doesn't work! Compiz no works!
User B: Try to
Romeo Ninov scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:36 AM:
2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just the
blind leading the blind.
I've noticed that sometimes only a not-so-new-newbie can help another
newbie. A pro can sometimes not see the problem from
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:03:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Romeo Ninov scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:36 AM:
2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just
the blind leading the blind.
I've noticed that sometimes only a not-so-new-newbie can help
Anne Wilson wrote / napísal(a):
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:03:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Romeo Ninov scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 10:36 AM:
2) Why can you possibly help if you yourself are a newbie? It's just
the blind leading the blind.
I've noticed
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:30:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, so this list should be kept a bit more professional than the others. I
might be touching the zealot/religious angle here. 8-)
My opinion is that Ubuntu is to linux what etch-a-sketch is to personal
computers. Sort of. ;-)
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:22:11 Romeo Ninov wrote:
It's good that a newbie wants to help other newbies. As for the quality
of information, I've seen people who have several years of experience
give advice that was true years ago but completely wrong now. A newbie
basing his
Anne Wilson scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:39 AM:
On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:30:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, so this list should be kept a bit more professional than the others. I
might be touching the zealot/religious angle here. 8-)
My opinion is that Ubuntu is to
Anne Wilson scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:44 AM:
Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great
many newbies, which is a real shame.
Well said! (That's what I was trying to say initially but didn't quite
succeed.)
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Anne Wilson a écrit :
Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great many
newbies, which is a real shame.
I wouldn't call it hostility. More in the sense of a polite - and sane -
scepticism. There's a French saying which may illustrate this:
Hell is paved with
Niki Kovacs scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:16 PM:
So, to answer the question above: IMNSHO, the best advice comes from an
expert who *can* think like a newbie. (At work, I usually deal with the
opposite paradigm :oD)
There is no more dangerous user than a user that knows *a
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anne Wilson scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:44 AM:
Meanwhile, hostile reception of well-meaning efforts does put off a great
many newbies, which is a real shame.
Well said! (That's what I was trying to
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Niki Kovacs scribbled on Thursday, September 04, 2008 12:16 PM:
So, to answer the question above: IMNSHO, the best advice comes from an
expert who *can* think like a newbie. (At work, I usually deal with the
opposite
MHR wrote:
IMVMHO, having been brand new to CentOS but a long time Linux user and
sometimes administrator, delving into the depths of the kernel,
returning to the Linux email list world (as an idiot AND a newbie) and
now charged in part with porting a major real-life real-time app from
FC1
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:15 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
So, to answer the question above: IMNSHO, the best advice comes from an
expert who *can* think like a newbie. (At work, I usually deal with the
opposite paradigm :oD)
That is the Super User. Someone much more advanced than your usual
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
[snip good advice]
Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning!
VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're
all good for learning!
Create a VM per-distro, see how each distro installs, see how each
is managed. Take snapshots
Mike McCarty wrote:
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
[snip good advice]
Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning!
VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're
all good for learning!
Create a VM per-distro, see how each distro installs, see how
--- On Wed, 3/9/08, Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Date: Wednesday, 3 September, 2008, 9:08 AM
Hi Good People,
I've
On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 15:34 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
snip
May I suggest that, if you really want to learn how a Linux
system gets put together, and works, then get a copy of
Linux from Scratch and build your own?
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Well
Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote / napísal(a):
Hi Good People,
I've created a blog to help newbies in the world of Linux.
Can you people see it and tell what departments that I've to improve
more to help the grate community of Linux.
Please click this link to go to my blog
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Romeo Ninov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote / napísal(a):
Hi Good People,
I've created a blog to help newbies in the world of Linux. Can you
people see it and tell what departments that I've to improve more to help
the grate
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:01:29PM +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote:
...
Thx, I need more feed back like this so I can add more value to the blog.
Sadaruwan, please TRIM your replies!
--
Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance)
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:54 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:01:29PM +0530, Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote:
...
Thx, I need more feed back like this so I can add more value to the blog.
Sadaruwan, please TRIM your replies!
In fact, the first thing in your blog might be a
Sadaruwan Samaraweera a écrit :
Hi Good People,
I've created a blog to help newbies in the world of Linux. Can
you people see it and tell what departments that I've to improve
Switch your mail client from HTML to plain text?
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I've created a blog to help newbies in the world of Linux. Can you
people see it and tell what departments that I've to improve more to help
the grate community of Linux.
1) The world has plenty of sites already catering to linux newbies. I
just googled linux for newbies and got
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