On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
I'm looking for a community that is looking to help me get into the world of Linux, via their distribution. If the CentOS community is not that kind of community, one that helps Newbies, then that would be a little sad as I've invested so much work in getting CentOS to meet my needs, and I've felt that overall the CentOS community has been very welcoming. But if this group, or it's moderators, do not have the patience to help a newbie who does not know why a YUM installation question is on topic but a PHP installation question isn't, please direct me to the community and or distribution that is.
I would say be patient with the list. Most people here are helpful and friendly. There's just a bad run lately of people picking at tiny portions of posts and making them into off-topic personal pissing matches (including myself as a guilty party here). As a consequence the list has started to turn zero tolerance all of a sudden. I wouldn't take this as the norm.
If it gets to be too much (which I personally don't think it is, yet) Ubuntu and FreeBSD have fantastic user communities with very pragmattic users who just want to get stuff done. Ubuntu is a rough, but very high quality distribution. I run CentOS, even on my laptop, so I don't prefer Ubuntu. But my experience with it and the user community was very good.
Preston