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Tracy R Reed wrote:
> Brian Deacon wrote:
> 
>>>I'm looking at this one:
>>>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/
> 
> 
> This is the best one. It's where I learned my chops.

Another thing: If you are still using Pico I *strongly* encourage you to
put forth whatever effort it takes and learn vi. I currently have
several employees who insist on using pico. I have provided them with vi
tutorials from online and I am now cracking the whip on them to learn
vi. If any of them asks to learn emacs instead that will be fine too but
nobody has yet. Pico is a huge timewaster for any company. I would
prefer they spend  the time now to learn to use the right tools for the
job and then reap the time savings later than spend all of their time
arrowing around in pico.

While I'm writing:

Windows is "free" (as in beer) here. Just a block from my  pad there is
a shop with huge phonebook thick binders of listings of software titles
usually consisting of a photocopy of the front of the CD case as well as
CD cases of the more popular titles covering every inch of the walls.
You order by number and someone runs to the storage and retrieves the
CD. They have thousands of titles including all of the very pricey stuff
you can possible imagine. They even have Fedora Core 3 on the wall,
oddly enough. Easier than downloading and burning it if you don't have
DSL I suppose. But the people in the shop don't know what Linux is. I
think I saw a copy of an old Mandrake too. Didn't have CentOS 4.0 which
I would have purchased instead of downloading and burning.

Because Windows is free there is very little Linux activity here. This
is making it difficult to find qualified people.

However there is a strong open source presence here which I find very
interesting. Everyone knows at least a little PHP. Nearly everyone I
have interviewed has (or claims to have) used Apache, PHP, and MySQL on
the Windows platform. It is amazing to me how popular these applications
are on Windows. I always thought Linux was the primary platform for
these applications but over here that is certainly not the case.

Myself and a friend are organizing the Saigon Linux Users Group. First
meeting is next weekend.

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