[mdlug] Future presentations.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:09 -0500, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> > nything into the CLI:  Yes, I personally know how powerful
> > that is.  Most computer users, especially those migrating from Windows
> > don't even know what one looks like.  The user end of computing is the
> > graphical user interface, like it or not.
> The thing is, Linux isn't Windows or Mac. Linux is Linux, and one of the
> things that *makes* Linux Linux is the command line. 

I disagree.  To solve many problems [at least most effectively] one goes
immediately to the command line in Windows.  And Microsoft has done a
great deal to beaf-up its command line in recent years.  For example;
how do you see the routing table or ip configuration [in one place] in
Windows.  You go to the command line.  

> > 1)  Read the Man page:  These documents are written by everyone from
> > Charles Dickens, to Charles Manson.  Many assume a certain level of
> > technological knowledge and are singularly unhelpful to-the beginner.
> Half point. Man pages are mostly reminders for people who already have
> an idea what the command does. But referring someone to the man page
> *after* you've explained what the command does, with an example or two,
> is perfectly justified.

Dunno, I used "apropos label" to figure out how to label/relabel a FAT
volume just this morning.

> Well, you're right about that. 95% of the time. Once in a while a
> specific distribution is best *for a specific purpose*. For general
> purposes, most distributions are on par with each other.

It is 99.44% the same software, just packaged.  This is also a reason
the reinstall-reinstall-reinstall approach is stupid.