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In comp.os.linux.help J. Bruce Fields <bfields@login.itd.umich.edu> wrote:
> In article <9v4699.614.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>,
> Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>>In comp.os.linux.help J. Bruce Fields <bfields@login.itd.umich.edu> wrote:
>>> .... But what does a
>>> newbie really learn by installing 2 or 3 different distributions?
>>
>>That he has the power and the ability do it.

> Why is this important to you?  Personally, installing a new OS doesn't

It's an issue of feeling free. Most people have been taught that they
can't handle a computer, because ms products all take the power out of their
hands. One of the first things a linux user has to learn is that there
are no laws, no forbiddens, no alloweds. There is nobody to say what's
right or OK except you. That's the important lesson. Putting in and
taking out an o/s a few times teaches them that they CAN be in charge,
not the o/s.

> linux, and I like using linux a lot.  But the installation in itself isn't
> particularly interesting, and I don't think that, say, a week of

I must say that the last installation I did (of debian 2.2, a coupel of
years ago) was very interesting. It took me three days to reverse
engineer the formats and install enough by hand to get the bootstrap to
the point where I could read the manual and find out how I was supposed
to have done it. (wouldn't you know that the man pages needed stuff in
the "groff" package, yeah. Obvious afterwards)

Peter