W Paul Mills wrote: > My start with Debian came about 6 months ago. I found dselect and > the rest of the packaging system confusing. Frustrating at that time > was man pages that said they were not up to date - read the docs. > The doc files also said they were not up to date - read the man pages. > Now that was very circular and not at all helpful. Someone totally > new to linux would probably be even more confused. Often those new > to linux do not even know how to find and view the documentation. A > book would make a nice security blanket :-) I think that is a good point -I have started using Debian (after a unsuccessfull try with an old german S.U.S.E.-distribution) aprox. 1 month ago -there are still many essential thing, which I don´t undertand and which are not working by now. One of the first problems I solved was how to get some orientation in the widespread -filesystem tree and how to use man-pages, HOWTO´s and readme-files.
A good basic book about the concepts of (Debian)-Linux is very helpfull during the first time -when I am an experienced user, I will maybe think, that this was useless, but from today´s point of view, I can only underline what you have said. -- Bye, Marc Saric Visit http://www.rat.de/marc_saric/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .