In a message dated: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:37:41 EST Bill Sconce said:
>Truly so. And the man pages have no index; Why do people keep saying this? Has no one ever used 'whatis', 'apropos', or 'man -k'? What more of an index do you need? I'm not trying to be a pain the butt, condescending, or arrogant, but everything you need for the most part is there in the man pages. If those don't do it for you, there are countless books out there, many of them on-line via the web, and almost as many on the very installation CDs for your distro (all viewable under ANY OS ). It's already been stated that Linux, as a UNIX variant, is not Windows or MacOS. It's not the good old days of DOS 2.0 where there were only a dozen or so commands. This is a real, live, honest to goodness, muti-tasking, mutli-user operating systems which has been developed over a period of 30 YEARS! How can anyone realisticly expect to wrap their head around all of that in a short period of time? I'm sorry, it can't be done. I feel your pain as a newbie or neophyte, or novice, or newcomer to Linux. But if don't want the thrill and excitement of constant learning and mastery of an OS, then don't use it, it's that simple. The media and a lot of individuals keep asking "Doesn't Linux *want* to own the desktop? Don't they *want* people to use their system?", etc. Well let me break this you, we don't really care whether you do or not. If you do, great, we'll help you. If don't, great, have a nice life with your other OS and we'll see you around. See, for many of us, Linux already owns the only desktop that matters, our own. And much past that, we don't care. We're not out to conquer the world and beat Microsoft (contrary to what the media says), we're out to get a job done. That's it, end of story. Linux helps us get that job done, whatever it is, better than Microsoft does. So, the reason you find Linux, or any UNIX variant difficult to master is because is it is. It's a complex, convoluted, contradictory amalgamation of ideas, theories, and experiments, often times gone horribly awry. It's the absolute worst environment there is for computing, except for all the rest. And we love it! Thanks, I'm done ranting now :) -- Seeya, Paul ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
