On Thu 15 Feb 2007 00:46:01 NZDT +1300, Rik Tindall wrote: > Seems to me, if you really want to teach GNU/Linux,
Then I would teach how to use software, and Linux software that would be. Later on I would mention the open source model but not excessively. In any case I would make sure not to include political cr*p like the GNU/ in front of Linux and other likewise things. If you like to do that, please open your own GNU/Politico website, mailing list and teaching classes. > then you start with > BSD - in the classroom, that is. Please let me know beforehand, so I get time enough to warn all my acquaintances not to bother. New people are either interested in server/admin type stuff, in which case they have a clue already, or they are desktop users, in which case BSD is useless. Remind yourself Rik that Billy got hugely big while unix vendors were peddling user-unfriendly stuff and peeing against each other. Linux/BSD peeing contests are just repeating the same mistake and are not productive. To make it plain, I'm not interested. A talk on what BSD does for me on the desktop is not of much use either as far as I can see, because I see already that all my applications which I need to get semi-professsional work done on Linux aren't on BSD which ticks off BSD for the bin at that point, and I don't think you'd be the right presenter for that Rik because I'd want to see applications, not politics. You've made clear now that you're only interested in politics. I am not, and I don't think many others here are either. End of story from me. I am looking forward to the upcoming presentation on BSD at the root user level, because it helps me admin a BSD box on the server level. It would be stellarly useful if it was aimed at users who can already run a Linux command line. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
