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.
- B
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christopher Faylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 02:42:49PM -0700, Ben wrote:
Removed my HTML to send this off...
It is not important for anyone to know this.
The Ubuntu help says that if you download Cygwin (link:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM), you can follow the
Linux directions. I'm using the Cygwin shell and it is not working. I
downloaded the file to C. I type:
cd C:\
So far, so good. The (zippied) file ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso is
sitting in C:\. So I type:
md5sum ubutuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.iso
"No such file or directory."
Ah well. Cygwin does not seem to be a very newbie-friendly
application. "Help cd" offers one a starkly technical little
paragraph. Incidentally, how does one even go to the Desktop directory
(which lies at C:\Documents and Settings\Ben\Desktop for me) with
Cygwin? Whenever you put in a space, Cygwin seems to reject it.
Hmm. Just got a similar question on irc a while ago.
Cygwin doesn't use : or \. Use:
cd "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Ben/Desktop"
And, btw, your "newbie-friendly" comment shows that you apparently have
no idea what Cygwin is and possibly have no idea what Linux is all
about. 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.
cgf
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Well, if you use linux system in a MS windows style where clicking
buttons can almost solve everything,
then you may waste of your valuable times and totally loss your
confidence on Linux. You need to
read a book and just learn it, like what you do in other computer
lessons. Linux expects you as a master
and this assumption may be harmful to newbies. Fortunately, after a
shape learning line, you can control
your linux system to do lots of things windows can't do.
Yours
Zheng
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