Hi Amarendra I fully agree with you. I learnt Linux the hard way, looking up HOWTO's, experimenting, searching the net and mail archives, etc. I for one used linuxconf to learn about Linux - the various config files that were changed by it while performing a task.
Then again to become a guru, you need to look into things and start learning "how to learn". Seeing the posts on the linux-india mailing lists, I wonder how may are trying. For example, the disk capacity mail. If this mail had been posted on some global lists, it probably would not have got a single response giving the answer. But am sure it would have got responses like lookup the man pages, see the HOWTO's, find out for yourself, etc. Guys no offence intended. I would like to be as helpful to all as I can be one and all, for I had got responses like the above in the initial days when I was learning Linux. Hey, what I'm, trying to say is, we are trying to help people on this list right. Regards Rashik -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Amarendra Godbole (Intl Vendor) Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIH] Re: dns problem Hi, // You seem to have had some bad experiences with linuxconf. // Any software // if not used properly will screw things up. Linuxconf has // evolved quite a // bit from what it used to be. But it is a good tool for newbies. <philosophical mode on> Any Linux newbie has to start from knowing the system, not with tool that give an abscraction of a system. Then there is no difference between a Linux newbie, and a Windows newbie. The thing is, if you use these high abscraction level config tools, you never know what actually happens, and this is not what Linux was meant for. Linux wants you to shift from a newbie to a Guru level, while Windows users remain newbies always. That way, Linux does not insult your intelligence. <philosophical mode off> Cheers, --amarendra -- Amarendra A. Godbole / Microsoft ``Services For UNIX'' / These opinions are _MINE_. ``Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.'' --Horace Mann. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
