For the Newbies
Austin Isler
a_c_isler at verizon.net
Fri Feb 27 17:49:05 UTC 2004
I didnt like his shell example reading "lostchild". First I am new to
Linux. Second I have been using computers since MS-DOS 5. Third I am no
child. Since Micro$oft is a software giant and has the money for ads,
you can not judge people because they only know of Windows.
Austin
Alexandre Strube wrote:
>Em Qui, 2004-02-26 às 13:42, Wayde Gutman escreveu:
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>>My impression from fedora-list emails that many of the users of FC1 and
>>FC2 are from the GUI generation, e.t., Windows. I have been a computer
>>user since MS-DOS 3.3 days, as far as I am concerned, if you had never
>>used DOS, you are at a disadvantage.
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>I've been using computers since mainframe and those perfurated cards,
>not to say altair and zx stuff. But my mother uses them for, say, 3
>years, and I'm glad that GUI stuff evolved so much she can use Fedora. I
>wouldn't put redhat 7 on a computer to her.
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>And I doubt she will never need anything on command-line. Openoffice,
>gnome, mozilla, evolution and frozen-bubble are more than enough :-)
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