On Tuesday 24 October 2006 09:46, Hadley Rich wrote: [...] > There isn't much information there that specifies the difference > between Underground Linux and Arch Linux? What is the purpose of > the project?
Quoting from the URL I sent along, the numero uno (in diffidence to its Italian origin) feature of Underground is: "Ease of installation: The graphical installer will guide you through the installation in a simple and effective way." So by a circuitous root we have got back to Vik's quest!! My computer experience began at the height of the DOS/Windows tension, after several misguided excursions (eg. GeoWorks and XTGold - both well done) I defied the local PCug DOS/CLI 'wisdom' and ran with Windows!! After customising the hell out of it (dumped Progman for Fileman as the shell, for instance) I had a system that served my mechanical engineering bent, very well, for many years. As a longtime home education parent Howard Gardner's 'Multiple Intelligences' theory is well canvassed within the HE fraternity. In the inaugural September 2006 edition of PCLinuxOS magazine, Derrick Devine managed a first for me by acknowledging the 'visual learner' in his 'mv elitism >> /dev/null' article. http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm http://mag.mypclinuxos.com/ http://linux-blog.org/index.php?/archives/90-mv-elitism-devnull.html Any use Vik? Bear in mind there is a gradient of 'visual learners' depending on what other intelligences impinge, which will account for the GNOME/KDE/WHATEVER preferences. I'm keenly interested in your conclusions, our Linux/FOSS advocacy has often been stonewalled and we are seriously asking the same question(s). Cheers... Rex
