On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, H.C.Lai wrote: > My point is, having Debain's book on the shelves of bookshops raises the > visibility of Debain and may actually encourage people to choose it over > other distributions.
Very true. I had heard about linux for some time before first trying it somewhere back arould kernel version 1.1. A book with a very poor version of Slackware was my start. The book was actually pretty useless. But without the book I would never have had the courage to try it. I often see people at the local Barnes and Noble requesting a linux book with a CD. This almost always means they start with Slackware ( as I did ) or Red Hat on occasion. My start with Debian came about 6 months ago. I found dselect and the rest of the packaging system confusing. Frustrating at that time was man pages that said they were not up to date - read the docs. The doc files also said they were not up to date - read the man pages. Now that was very circular and not at all helpful. Someone totally new to linux would probably be even more confused. Often those new to linux do not even know how to find and view the documentation. A book would make a nice security blanket :-) ---------------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----------------- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow? : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer : -------------- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ ------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
