"Wow! Zing!" ???
Hum ...
I would think a simple "yes, understanding Unix/Linux before dealing
with Cygwin" would have been a bit more professional .. or, probably
more to the point, encouraging one to pursue learning Unix/Linux.
Regarding his comment of Ubuntu being "newbie-friendly", I live in a
RH/Fedora world and I was advised by Linux folks I respect to not try to
bring my own system up under Ubuntu as it would confuse me since I am a
programmer and not a sysAdmin guru. I'm not advocating RH/Fedora, but
flavors on Linux are important and following this post gives me the
sense that Cygwin is RH based (underscored by
http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/). Hence, that might be a better
model towards his understanding Linux and then Cygwin.
Paul
(the person who might be referred to in cgf's "Hmm. Just got a similar
question on irc a while ago.Cygwin doesn't use : or \." (23jun08, same
thread) which may be fundamental but still a necessary learning
experience by doing wrong and being corrected ... twice)
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:43:39PM -0700, Ben wrote:
"The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
environment. If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
dabbling with Ubuntu."
If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
UNIX?
It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
Linux.
Wow! Zing!
cgf
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