[CentOS] Re: Installing/Activating GUI for Server Settings -- [OT] Linux for Users

[Todd Cary]

Very nicely stated......wish you were writing a book!

Todd

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:10, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>Bryan -
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>>Agreed!  For me there is a distinction between "understanding" and
>>"knowing".  My 30 years experience has been in the Windows environment
>>and in comparison, Linux is much easier to understand.  The challenge
>>is knowing where to look or knowing which function and switch to use.
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>I'd add to the challenge knowing which of the nearly-infinite ways
>of doing something is going to work best, require the least effort,
>and/or work the same across many distributions and versions...
>'yum update' is an extreme example compared to any other way to
>maintain a system.  But it doesn't work that way everywhere and
>even where it does you may want packages that aren't bundled in
>any repositories so you have to know how and when to do things the
>hard way.
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>>I often use the term "spiral learning"; that is one starts with a task
>>to do.  Rather than having to commit reems of information to memory to
>>achieve a simple task, it is easier to accomplish the task by looking
>>up what is wanted.  Then one can expand (spiral outward) his
>>knowledge.  Now I have many friends who prefer to read manuals from
>>cover to cover (and they remember most of it).  Of course, my dyslexia
>>creates it's own hurdle and bias.
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>There are certain core parts that help with all your other learning
>like basic shell and regular expression syntax, but it is nice to
>avoid as much of the oddball details that will change next week as
>as possible.  The problem is that you don't know which is which until
>too late - like after the LSB group meets and decides to move everything
>again.  Someone should write an 'all you need to know besides webmin'
>book that just lists the things you can't do by filling in webmin forms.
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