On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:13:29PM -0000, Paul wrote: > > > --- In [email protected], Scott <scottro@...> wrote: > > > It is all I had when I got started. And there is no one less advanced than I > am. I still have my Walnut Creek Linux Bible which is just all the HOWTOs > printed out. Was a pretty thick book even in 1997. >
Yup, but things are easier now. I suspect there are many less advanced than you, actually. > Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. But if I can do it then anyone that has > gotten this far in this message can too! > Not everyone wants to put the same amount of time into it, or has the amount that you might have had--back in the late 90's, when I first got interested in it, I was fortunate to be in a situation where I had opportunity to learn. > And hey if you think you can explain it any better submit your HOWTO and > they'll probably toss it up on the web. I've found that it's simply easier to use my ISP's home page for my howtos--I have limited time, and official ones make me feel as if I have to maintain them. Also, they have their various restrictions, such as the pattern of the howtos. Some of them, such as the LVM howto, are great, even if dated, others, well....not my cup of tea. However, the fact that they're not mine doesn't mean they're bad, simply that they're not good for me. For example, I think the advanced bash scripting one is one of the poorer bash tutorials I've seen, where others (though they often had a programming background) say it's the greatest thing since sliced bread--which reminds me, I better get the sliced bread out of the freezer. My own personal opinion is that BSD docs are much better--I remember when I first started with Linux, a friend telling me that if a man page made no sense to me, go to the FreeBSD site and read theirs. I'm sure that some prejudice has remained. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Angel: I knew this was gonna happen. Buffy: What? What do you think is happening? Angel: You're 16 years old, I'm 241. Buffy: I've done the math. Angel: You don't know what you're doing. You don't know what you want. Buffy: Oh, no. I think I do. I want out of this conversation. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
