Jaymz Ringler spake the following on 4/11/2006 9:28 AM: > 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) > Git Er Done!!! > > > > 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 -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!