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