Now this is what I had been harping on to many in the Linux community. The GUI is now good enough that ordinary (non-programmer) users can go ahead and do work without having to invoke gcc.
I realized that this is anathema to many Linux users. You're supposed to know gcc and bash in order to use Linux. What is happening is that in teaching Linux here with these features as necessary parts to understanding means that a good many non-sysad types will be turned-off. Teaching bash is to ordinary users is not the way to promote Linux as an alternative OS to users brought up on Windows. Ricky Munoz -----Original Message----- From: Juan Gaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:30:05 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [plug] Linux trends in the Philippines That is also the same situation everywhere. Here in DRC/UN, only a few indians knows linux. I was actually surprised to see an Iraq using Linux but when I approached him, he was just using the GUI to do everything. And was shock to see me switch to console and type "vi and tailf" to see the conf and the logs. hahaha. He told me that you dont need to do that because SUSE GUI is good enough for that. And a pakistani friend of mine here told me that they dont have any linux training center in their country. Not one he said. So, maybe we still have some advantage, but we need to hurryup because our kapitbahay the Indians are gearing up on Linux fast. --- Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:30:16AM +0800, Miguel A > Paraz wrote: > > I think this is an important topic. How's the > local Linux economy and > > are we ready to take on more outsourcing jobs for > Linux and F/OSS? > > Our company actually has a few such outsourcing jobs > for GNU/Linux and > F/OSS in general at the moment. It says something > of how ready the > local economy is the fact that we are incredibly > overworked (but not > underpaid anymore! ;) and are running into serious > difficulties hiring > new people who have even been exposed to anything > other than a Microsoft > OS... > > -- > Mankind will in time discover that unbridled > majorities are as tyrannical > and cruel as unlimited despots. > http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go > to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph .. To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug .. Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
