If we had that IRC channel we discussed earlier in this mailing list, it should have helped a lot. Some one would be able to find help directly from another user. What do you guys think?<br><br>cheers<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 7/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">member greenarrow1</b> <<a href="mailto:greenarrow1@opensuse.us">greenarrow1@opensuse.us</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 7/8/07, Matthew Flaschen <<a href="mailto:matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu">matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> Jacob Maynard wrote:<br>> > Agreed, but not a workable option in the case of someone new switching to
<br>> > GNU/Linux. Not enough people are interested in learning on their own by<br>> > messing around with it. You have to give them a resource to use for their<br>> > information. Something simple and straight forward.
<br>><br>> I agree. The most straight-forward way to start someone out is to point<br>> them to a very detailed tutorial for installing a particular distro.<br>><br>> Matt Flaschen<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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</a><br>><br><br>And this is the area we are lacking in. No one wants to open a<br>tutorial and read something that looks like it came from a engineering<br>programmer. In teaching individuals that want to try or switch to
<br>Linux I found that using "Show Me's" with written instructions work a<br>lot better than just words. Words are dull to a newbie but if they<br>see a picture or illustration that tends to catch their eye.
<br><br>I could write a general Linux article, what to look for in Distro's,<br>how to search, the difference between a Window OS and a Linux distro,<br>etc but to get it to new users would be the problem. I would need
<br>screen shots of non-proprietary distros and actually others that do<br>not include proprietary in their base install. I can say this even if<br>they use an all OpenSource distro if they want to play certain songs<br>
or DVD's they are still going to find a way to install proprietary<br>code to use what they want. This is one area people are not going to<br>give up and until we create programs that can do this within Linux we<br>are not going to be able to stop it.
<br><br>This is a area I have been talking to Google about and seeing if this<br>is a anti-trust violation. It seems to me it is because Microsoft is<br>trying to lock all this in their windows base. Being that codecs and
<br>Dvd's are universal locking them into one operating system would be<br>monopolizing them. So far looks good as they are gong to further<br>study this area. I went the Google route because they are already<br>filing anti-trust violations against MS and even though it is like
<br>using the lessor of 2 evils at least it is against MS.<br><br><br>George<br>greenarrow1<br>InNetInvestigations-Forensic<br>SuSe 10.2/TriStar/Apache<br>GoBoLinux<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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