[BadVista Advocate] Help those who don't have the technical experience.

Sunnz sunnzy at gmail.com
Tue May 1 09:20:18 EDT 2007


Jacob I added a catergory(?) for the U.S. and put your entry under it,
feel free to change you details. (I don't know if you actually live in
the U.S., just guessing. There are no NC state in Australia.)

2007/5/1, Jacob Maynard <indymaynard at maynard.homelinux.com>:
> I was thinking about how nice a page like this would be. Nice thinking.
>
> Jacob
>
> > Just started a "User help users" page on binary freedom:
> > http://wiki.binaryfreedom.info/index.php/Users_Help_Users
> >
> > It is an idea adopted from this Xbox Linux page:
> > http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Users_Help_Users
> >
> > Not all people may have the expertise to install OS on their computer,
> > which could be a great barrier for them even if they want to get rid
> > of M$'s restrictive OS. This page can list what people can help
> > installing Linux on their computer.
> >
> > However I don't think it is rational to _only_ install "totally free"
> > distro's like gNewsense. People may be dependent on different things
> > and we shall help them 'free' as much of their computer as possible,
> > not forcing our own solution down their throat. I myself would even
> > merely convert their M$ document to OpenOffice document if that's the
> > case.
> >
> > That said, you can't be familiar with every distro out there, so you
> > might like to list distros that you are familiar with.
> >
> > My English isn't very good... so my message here or on the wiki may be
> > unclear, so please, feel free to clean things up!! Thanks!!!
> >
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