On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 06:37 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 08:10 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
> > I couldn?t help but take notice at some of the responses that were
> > coming in from when I was posting questions due to my ignorance of
> > Linux. Some people were quick to help, some advanced users I am sure
> > ignored me because im not worth their time, and then some other users
> > tried to help but was unable to dumb their speech down to newb levels.
> > However I am thankful that there is people here to help out. I am
> > hoping someone with CentOS will take notice at my difficulty in
> > finding the bloody manuals and will put a link for future newbs that
> > says ?Download Manuals Here?. I also hope in the future if I have
> > questions I will be able to get the answers I seek and those who
> > helped me before will be able to help me again.
> ----
> CentOS is probably less accustomed to having Linux newbies than say Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc. Those are more geared for the end user whereas CentOS is based on the Enterprise version of Red Hat stuff which is less 'cutting edge' when it comes to the end users desktop. "Most" CentOS users are using it with servers than on desktops.
>
> The 'old guard' of UNIX/Linux is quite used to saying RTFM and most here
> are 'old guard' - it's not personal.
>
> As to making CentOS more newbie friendly...there are some who will and
> some who won't bother but it's not personal.
>
> Craig
>
Well put Craig...do your homework first then come here
John
