"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
> :-)Not all of us are "guru's". I personally consider myself to be fairly
> :-)unknowledgable. The greatest lesson that I have ever learned was that
> :-)"The only thing that we can know with certainty is that we certainly
> :-)don't know anything". If you can admit that you don't know it, then you
> :-)can freely ask for help. That's what I do. I offer my tiny amount of
> :-)knowledge to people that may need it, and the rest of the time I spend
> :-)learning from others.
> I agree whole heartedly. I am trying to free up some time to make it to some BLU
> meetings, and of course will continue with the multi-tier self learning program
> that I have been involved in for the past 3 years. As previously stated, my
> primary goal in this undertaking is to learn all I can about Linux. I just
> never realised what a major undertaking that was going to be.
Why not? Remember when you were a baby, learning to walk, talk, etc.? That
was a major undertaking. Every learning process when you start from scratch
is a major undertaking. No one said that it would be easy. And really,
there is certainly no reason why anyone should *EXPECT* it to be. I know, I
know, the argument is: "But Windows is really easy to learn". That's a
bunch of garbage. Sure, people can learn easily to point and click on the
apps that they need, but hand your average Windoze user a CD and tell them
to install NT (or 95/98 for that matter) and configure networking on it and
that's a whole different story. If all someone wants is basic funtionality,
point and click, and a few essential apps, I can teach them to use Linux in
about 3 minutes (2 1/2 minutes spent on the login process ;-).
> :-) As to your comments about software being free on Windows and Linux,
> :-)this is quite true. There is quite a bit of great software out there for
> :-)the Windows platform. But, if you compare free software for Windows and
> :-)Free software for Linux, you will notice one *MAJOR* difference. Free
> :-)software for Linux tends to have the source code with it. So, if by
> :-)chance it doesn't work, then you can potentially fix it.
> Yes, um sure, uh fix it ,right. I don't think I know anybody who has the
> slightest idea what to do with source code. My car came with a transmission,
> but if it doesn't work, I doubt I'm gonna be pullin kick down bands and
> adjusting planetary gears. ("common" user, remember?).
Ah, but just remember that 1) you paid for the car and 2) car manufacturers
are propriery ;-). But seriously, so what if you don't know what do do with
source code (here's a hint: COMPILE IT ;-). I'll bet if you sent an e-mail
to the list stating the software package, what you did with it, what went
wrong, what errors you got, and what the docs say about those errors,
someone here has seen it, fixed it, used it, or written it! That is one of
the main functions of the list
Kenny
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