I just want to make one small comment. My understanding is that unix is a family of operating systems, and that GNU/Linux is a member of that family, just like Sunos is a member of that family. Thus, unix and GNU/Linux are not separate operatingsystems, which you seem to be implying in your post. Greg On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:14:13AM -0230, Ed Barnes wrote: > Hi Octavian. > To answer your question I don't know of any Linux newbie mailing lists > specifically geared toward blind people. > I am a relative beginner with regard to using Linux myself, however; I > never really looked to find a newbie list. > To a point I am sort of the opposite to you with regard to how I learn in > that I like reading docs, man pages, and sometimes howtos. > I ask a few questions now and then and I'm greatful for the answers I've > received from many of the more experienced Linux users on this list. > Note however that I know I didn't say that to use Linux a person must know > Unix first though both operating systems have a great deal in common, and > unless I drastically miss-understood something over the past few days i > don't think anyone else did either. > Also, in regard to your comment that Microsoft does so well because the > people that know Linux dont' want to take the time to help newbies, I'm > sorry, I'm very much offended, I'm not offended because I've done a great > deal for you but attitudes like yours make other people who arelatively > new to Linux look like winers who make excuses and such. > Many members of this list have helped you a great deal since you joined it > so the credability of a statement such as the one you made regarding > veteran Linuxers not wishing to help newbies is zero in my opinion. > Further to this thread and my statements about the helpfulness of members > of this list may I point that my saved messages folder is 80% messages > from this list even though I subscribe to other mailing lists devoted to > other topics asside from Linux, this is because I tend to file messages > containg command infoand more so I can refer to them later. > Lastly, you may increase your probability of success if you concentrated > more on how things are done in Linux instead of comparing pieces of advice > given by users to what you already know, that being Windows, and complaing > ing less. Expend some of the energy you use comparing things unnecessarily > toward more positive things and more useful tasks like playing around and > seeing what happens under Linux. > As a newbie you probably won't break anything that can't be fixed or > anything that other newbies before you or I hasn't broken. > Folks these are just my opinions and I hope I've not offended anyone in > expressing them as that isn't my intent. > Regards to all, Ed. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
