On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:21:01 -0700 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > David Palmer. wrote: > > > If you request help, terminologies like 'chown' and chmode' or > > somesuch are thrown at you without any effort toward fuller > > explanation, and it goes further than assumption through long > > familiarity, there is some sort of supercilious ego factor involved > > also. > > Or the assumption by the more experienced, who know that that your > problem was far enough advanced that if you skipped the "basics" like > filesystem manipulation you'd better be ready to fire up "man chown" > yourself and back up and ask THAT question first? :-) > Sorry, Nate, this doesn't apply. There is no set routine to what you learn first in Debian, or any other branch of Linux. File system manipulation? I wouldn't know the first thing about it. I don't want Nautilus or Konqueror, that sort of GUI system is too much like windows, and not what I came here for. How is a newbie supposed to know what to learn first? There's no discernable learning structure. It's to the point now, where I just lurk on the lists, because after a previous learning process with hardware, I know that terminologies, given time, will sink in, or you catch up with them in the learning process, and you place them into context. Ocassionally there will be a bit of interaction of this nature, but generally now the only time I speak up, is when another newbie arrives on the list and asks for something I know about. I've just done that for someone who needed to know about 64Bit SMP. But that's it. Which is crazy, because I take knowledge in like a sponge, and I should already be in a position to provide a higher level of feedback than I do. The fastest learning track I have found with Debian, is books. I've bought the Debian/GNULinux Bible by Steve Hunger which has a potato disc in the back of it, which I am going to install on a couple of old 486 desktops, one for a mail server, and the other for a standalone firewall (Bastille), and then upgrade them. I've also just got hold of Rod Smiths' 'Linux Powertools,' with a quick read through, that looks very useful, I've got a couple of others on the way as well, among them is 'Rute Guide and Exposition', but as far as the learning process goes, the list is a very minor part of it all. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]