RTFM = Read The Fricking Manual FWIW = For What It's Worth Larry the Cable guy is from my area. (about 40 miles south of me in the East corner of Nebraska) On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:21 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote: > What is RTFM and FWIW? I saw those 2 unknown terms in replies to what I > posted. As for local Linux users I am in a small town and the closest place > that would have something like that would be Houston which is a good hour > and half away. Same goes for bookstores. The typical person living in my > area looks like Larry the Cable Guy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf > Of Craig White > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:37 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] WOW > > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 08:10 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote: > > I couldn't help but take notice at some of the responses that were > > coming in from when I was posting questions due to my ignorance of > > Linux. Some people were quick to help, some advanced users I am sure > > ignored me because im not worth their time, and then some other users > > tried to help but was unable to dumb their speech down to newb levels. > > However I am thankful that there is people here to help out. I am > > hoping someone with CentOS will take notice at my difficulty in > > finding the bloody manuals and will put a link for future newbs that > > says "Download Manuals Here". I also hope in the future if I have > > questions I will be able to get the answers I seek and those who > > helped me before will be able to help me again. > ---- > CentOS is probably less accustomed to having Linux newbies than say Fedora, > Mandriva, Ubuntu, SuSE, etc. Those are more geared for the end user whereas > CentOS is based on the Enterprise version of Red Hat stuff which is less > 'cutting edge' when it comes to the end users desktop. "Most" CentOS users > are using it with servers than on desktops. > > The 'old guard' of UNIX/Linux is quite used to saying RTFM and most here > are 'old guard' - it's not personal. > > As to making CentOS more newbie friendly...there are some who will and > some who won't bother but it's not personal. > > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos