Very nicely stated......wish you were writing a book! Todd Les Mikesell wrote: >On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:10, Todd Cary wrote: > > >>Bryan - >> >>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. >> >> > >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. > > > >>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. >> >> > >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. > > > -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050816/0c45730a/attachment-0005.html>