Sid Boyce schrieb: > The best analogy I can come up with - when I approach an aeroplane type > I've never flown before, the main instruments and controls are all the > same, but I just have to learn how to fly it with the aid of an > instructor and reading documents. To attempt flying it with current > knowledge would almost certainly be the final installment to my obituary. > Regards > Sid. >
Good example Sid, is similar on my daily job! And Craig, just to add - today I feel that it is like a chain reaction. Once you get familiar with some of the basics (ie doing some things with the console like changing rights with "chown" ((open a console and type in chown --help))) you get faster and faster with your learning process. It helped me much (and that might a way for you too?) that I bought some brandnew but pretty outdated books about (SuSE) Linux - together more then 1400 pages for about $20. Ok, the biggest book is from the year 2000 for SuSE 6.4 and the other from 1999 but the *basics* are all the same, pretty nice that Linux gets better and better (and if you want it - like me - more comfortable with modern GUI) but you can use all that 6 year old stuff to get better knowledge and solve problems - especially what you can do with all that console commands, etc. You can get a lot of help and information online but I am a sort of old dino and like to work with a good book, make my own notes into it, etc. And - very important for me - all the time you spend now to learn is not lost, it will be very valuable even with XX Linux version 2010! No comparison to all these Windows versions, I threw all the books away whenever a new version came out, background-things changed a lot. So Craig, give Linux a chance. After 14 days working with OpenSUSE very intensive I am fully conviced that this is my O/S from now on. To be honest, there are some things I dislike. But I dislike much more all these data-losses I had under Win XP SP2 during the last year. I never had such a stable working system like I have now. There are some Linux programs which are buggy, I even had to note that one blocked my PC fully, but all this did not result in data-loss! Regards Georg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
