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George Durbridge (gdurb@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
: Jason Stokes (j.stokes@bohm.anu.edu.au) wrote:
: : 
: : It's just that I think arbitrarily naive users shouldn't be trying Linux if
: : they don't already have some experience with Unix, or at least computer
: : science.  Because Linux, despite all the PR, is still user hostile.  To
: : someone without the necessary background, early exposure to Linux could put
: : them off free software for life.
: : 

: Learn unix on the family vax and then graduate to linux ?  Some people 
: don't have a vax: they get linux to learn unix.  Some of them will be put 
: off.  It's a cheaper way of finding out unix isn't for you than, say, 
: unixware.
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If I may interject a bit here...

Some standard unix commands should be known before trying to install
linux. If you can use ls, cd, man, and more, then you should be able to
get through it. According to my system, the /usr/doc series of directories
contains over 11 megabytes of documentation, and that is with the HOWTO's
compressed.  When I started with linux I had only the basics of using unix
down, but things are running smoothly now.

Basicly, if you don't think you can do it, buy a book :)

- Josh

PS Vax Sucks :)