🚀 go-pugleaf

Zebee,
    I see what you're saying there, and I admit ownership of a couple of
starter books myself...
But don't you think the alternating frustration/elation cycle as you fight
to achieve something and then finally crack it is the best part of
Linux/programming in general?  The frustration is what keeps me coming back!

Dave
reddwarf@octa4.net.au

Zebee Johnstone wrote in message ...
>In aus.computers.linux on Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:49:46 +0930
>ochre small <reddwarf@octa4.net.au> wrote:
>>So, Zebee....
>>
>>How is he - or anyone - supposed to learn without installing it and
playing?
>
>IF they don;t know the first thing about it, they don;t have the
>*concepts* as basic as that, then installing and playing won't
>help them unless they are exceptional.
>
>It will just frustrate them, and turn them off.
>
>Now there was a time (I date back to kernel version 0.99) when
>you didn't have a choice.  No GUI tools, almost no beginner books,
>you just used what HOWTOs there were and kept at them till
>they made sense.
>
>Very few people bothered.
>
>If he finds the man pages gibberish, and doesn't know what telnet
>is or does, and hasn't got the idea to read README files, then
>he needs some basics before playing will work for him.
>
>Nowadays those basics are available, there are plenty of good
>basic books that are aimed at people who are doing exactly what
>he is doing.
>
>Zebee