Re: linux/unix?

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From: George Durbridge
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 00:00

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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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Date: 1997/03/16
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