Hi, Telsa, and everyone else,
> Interesting thread to return to.
Isn't it? See what happens when we don't read the list every day? :)
> I went away for a week. Before it, I was remarking that linuxchix
> posts seemed to be more than half from men these days.
It's probably true :(
> To me, that's a very recent development, and I've heard the suggestion (and
> voiced
> it myself) that it's not that the women are going away; it's that
> men are arriving because it's generally a fairly civilised environment.
I agree 100%.
> I do exactly the same thing. Even when I'm pretty sure, I hedge it
> around with "I think.." "On this distro.." "it's possible that.."
> These are not particularly self-deprecating; it's because I've
> seen too many different things to be entirely happy about generalising
> to systems I don't know.
Really!
When you say "On this distro" I can really relate. I often see answers that are
really Red Hat specific or Debian specific or whatever. I started with Red Hat
(there is still a copy of 4.0 on my shelf) and when I began to make a conscious
effort to play with other distros I learned the hard way just how different they
are. For example, sure, Caldera, Mandrake, Red Hat, TurboLinux, SuSe, and many
others all use RPMs. Just try and install a Red Hat .rpm file on a TurboLinux
system and see what happens. The NICs on my mini/home network require a drive disk
for TurboLinux, but the tulip drivers they use are right there in Mandrake.
I could go on and on. Different distros are, well... different.
> And yes, I have to be damn sure before I speak up in public. The
> thought of having it all wrong in the archives with my name on it
> is too much. I still feel embarrassed about one thing where I
> misunderstood badly, didn't check, and said a pile of stuff that,
> if not wrong, wasn't brilliantly right :)
Again, I can really, really relate to this. Do you really think guys just blunder
ahead more, though? I mean, I do see the odd wrong answer on list, but not often.
Are they just more sure of themselves? Do they (by percentage) really know more?
More questions... no answers, at least from me.
Best,
Caity
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