On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:46:31AM -0600, Mac McCaskie wrote: > If you want Debian to eventually follow DOS, then neglect new users and > ignore documentation. Keep knowledge to yourselves and allow only club > members to know the secret incantations.
IMO one of the strengths of Debian is that it is *not* about "keeping knowledge to yourselves" and "secret incantations". That's how *closed*-source systems go on. If I want to modify the behaviour of a Debian system I can find out how to do it. There's the man pages, /usr/share/doc/*, www.tldp.org, Google, this list... Relatively trivial changes which are a world of pain, or not possible at all, in Windoze, are not a problem in Debian. Sure, you have to think a bit. But a computer/OS/applications form an extremely complex system and it is not reasonable to expect to use it without a certain amount of thought - unless you want to sit in a playpen using plastic hammers with a Windoze logo on the ceiling. And the resources to aid your thought are freely available. All you have to pay for is your Internet connection - and you can get along pretty well if you don't even have that. > OR, you can work to reduce the frustration and steep learning curve many > noobies... face when we begin to work on our new Debian box. What do you think this list is doing? There are a LOT of people here who are not part of the Debian project - and certainly don't get paid - answering strangers' questions to help them get the most out of their Debian systems. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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