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In article <jollie-070193232104@gator-mtc-1.itc.uiowa.edu>, jollie@herky (Jeffrey C. Ollie) writes:
>Kuoppala) wrote:
>> alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions	UU Linux learning group - the Q&A column

>Why such a narrowly focussed group?

Mostly for the reason that there are a lot of people interested in
Linux on Usenet, and thus the group has better chances to attract the
critical mass of people than most groups.  Also to test the
".questions" type of group.

>In regular universities, you teach
>general
>operating systems concepts.  Linux might be used as a vehicle for teaching
>those concepts, but the concepts will be applicable to VMS, 4.3 BSD,
>Multics,
>etc.  There already exists a Linux group (comp.os.linux &
>comp.os.linux.announce).  This seems to me to be unecessary duplication.  A
>group called alt.uu.comp.os, dedicated to Q&A about general operating
>systems
>theory would be more appropriate.

I hear that comp.os.linux has problems of too high a traffic volume
for the tastest of many - and many questions are asked which are
answered in the FAQ files (and other similar files), so perhaps the
overlap/duplication is not necessarily negative.

The "alt.uu.comp" hierarchy was mostly formed for "practical courses"
- topics might include learning different programming languages,
learning to use Usenet and Internet and so on.  I think the more
university-like stuff (OS theory, computer theory, cryptology and so
on) should be under something like "alt.uu.compsci" or "alt.uu.cs".

//Jyrki