On Friday 08 November 2002 20:29, pevzner david wrote: > The point is that nobody really knew what is the difference > in those distros at least I couldn't get the answer .
As a matter of fact we did consider doing a "distribution lecture" but i think that we havn't made up our minds about that yet. As for talking about it with linux newbies: it seems pointless to me to show people (who are new to linux) the difference between RH, MDK, Debian or whatever before they even know the difference from Windows. > How You get to 75 I don't know , but > this is not a point , may be there where actually 75 comps installed by the .... > Most of instalations > which I saw where just hitting Enter and not really configuring the system > for a specific purposes. I configured 2 soft modems and one NVIDIA card. In all cases, it took me too much time till i found the right drivers and downloaded it from the internet and test it to see if it works. If we did so for every linux installation - i think you might have had a good chance to see all those 75 people in the same room, at the same time! ;\ But you didn't see them. didn't you? There is nothing wrong in "hitting Enter" - that only means that the installation went smooth without any problems. I am happy that linux installations became so easy (in some cases) - this way more people get to know linux. > I'm convinced that 100% of insta's made at the party where > choosing the "easiest option " aka. X How many windows users do you know who use the "not so easy option" in windows aka DOS? What i ment to say is that command-line may seem better to you, but it doesn't seem so to the avarage windows user. And you, my friend, are not an averge windows user (anymore). > ...Because they weren't installed or set up > properly. So average user come to conclusion that Linux is bad because it > is very slow. If we had taken this time to explain about X or about configuring packs and hardware, maybe we wouldn't need the basic administration lecture anymore, or the Network/ADSL lecture or any other lecture at all. My point is that we were aware of the fact that we can't show everything we know about linux. That's why we have the "Welcome to linux" (aka W2L) lectures. you can find the schedule here: http://haifux.org/newcomers/timetable.html You are more than welcomed to come and ask questions even if your questions don't relate to the lecture's subject. -- Regards, Shlomi Loubaton --------------------------------------------------- Homepage: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomil email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
