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How true, how true.
The first time I ever heard of Linux (or UNIX, for that matter) was
shortly after I got my first job at a computer store in my area. We never
dealt with UNIX or Linux, just DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows
98. However, one of my co-workers, Joe Theilen, introduced me to UNIX, I
asked him a ton of questions about it.
Boy was he right when he said it was *way* different. :-)
Anyway, I bought my first set of Linux (the Slackware distribution) at
HamFest here, in Toledo. I worked and struggled with it, eventually, I
wrote down a ton of questions. I only worked one day per week, so I had
to save my questions until then.
One of my first questions was "What are the equivilants of dir, move,
copy, etc.?", and soon after that, "Is there any documentation for this
thing?" I was getting pretty frustrated with Linux at that point, only
because I couldn't figure it out.
Actually, the phamplet would be better. "type" doesn't work under
Linux... and the typical DOS user won't know of cat or vi. Been there,
done that ;)
- Mike
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, David Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> >According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
> >>
> >> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> >>
> >> > According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
> >>
> >> > Actualy if i may say so without showing any disrespect, 90% of questions
> >> > would be answered IF the asker read the flipping manuals, as per RTFM.
> >>
> >> Yes, but WHICH manual? That's a question that often frustrates a newbie. I
> >> can't blame someone for not knowing what something is called (like IP
> >> masquerading) and then asking about it.
> >
> >That question is quite easy to find an answer to, in ALL linux distro's,
> >there is a complete directory absolutly full of documentation files, namely
> >/usr/doc, there is further more the "info" system (when installed) and then
> >the man pages, aside all that there are normaly README files in archives
> >like the one you picked as an example.
>
> The average users of Dos95 or Mac have absolutely no knowledge of Unix
> or Unix-like operating systems. It's going to take them a while to
> figure out that "dir" does not list a directory. It's going to take
> them even longer to find out where /usr/doc is. Then once they find it,
> they'll spend inordinate amounts of time figuring out how to display
> it. It matters not whether there are gigabytes of essential, useful and
> lucid information in /usr/doc if the new user can't find it.
>
> New users will appreciate easy-to-find and understand documentation
> that will give them enough to get started with. Whether this
> information is in the form of a "readme" file in their home directory,
> or a two page pamphlet in their distribution's box matters not.
>
> David Johnson
>
>
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