From: ms3@shark.cis.ufl.edu (McArthur E. Sandridge III) Subject: Re: Importance of the DOC project Date: 7 Apr 1993 18:03:53 GMT
In article <1pt718$acq@fitz.TC.Cornell.EDU> mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
>In article <1ps18t$p81@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig25@fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
>>At the moment, I can honestly recommend Linux only to people who are
>>quite familiar with the UNIX philosophy, which is obviously not a happy
>>state of affairs.
>
>I have to agree with you. However this will change soon. A pre-pre-alpha
>version of the Linux Install Guide is being cooked over now. Sometime
>Real Soon Now the book will be ready and a great burden on the Linux community
>will be lifted. Once the User's and System Admin's guides are out then
>we can safely rmgroup comp.os.linux. :)
>
Um, I have to take exception to both of you... I was/am a unix newbie
(ok, so I do know a fair amount about computers and have worked with
*nix to read news before this... :) I have not, however, had much
trouble with Linux. The SLS installation went in fine (oh yea, I forgot
to mention that I poked at bsd for a week or two and gave up in
frustration! I couldn't get anything configured right :) and now I have
both compiled my own options into the .99pl6 kernel and upgraded to pl7
(or A, but I think I don't have the A patches... Need to get those!) I
do now have books and I doubt that I will be able to call myself newbie
much longer (especially since I saw some questions being asked that I
*knew* the answer to! [Lotsa cheers!] :). But it doesn't take an
expert to try it out, although a more standard set of hardware might
have helped me.
>a book on UNIX to get the background and philosophy. Then it's not too hard
While I am here on my bandwagon, and since I am getting slightly better
at dealing with things, is there anyone out that that needs a alpha/beta
tester who is good at testing but doesn't know enough c to know if the
light is on? :) I have (as I stated above) a fairly standard system:
tseng 4000 based video, Viewsonic 6 Monitor
no-name 486-25 w/ami bios. 2 200M IDE drives,16M ram, and
a jumbo 250 (which I still have not seen a driver for... :( and a
Logitech mouseman. Xworks (with twm or openlook(?)), I have scarfed
some other programs (nethack!) and they work fine, and I have about 45%
of my 160M Linux partition open. I want to help, but since I am not
experienced with C, and don't do docs (Nurses are better! :), I don't
know how, so I figure I will throw myself out to you (yea, I know, real
safe!)
Thanks for being patient with me!
Buddy