On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 1:18 pm, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
No one said that on this list. All that has been said is you need to make an effort to learn and this goes beyond computers. Linux is not a black box. If Linux is a black box, it defeats the whole purpose of Linux as it is supposed to help people what they want to do easily.
for those who need a blackbox - linux should be a better black box than windoze (it is).
This can be as easy as changing a preference or as complex and difficult as writing a patch. Choosing what approach you want depends on you. Linux is a choice you make, not what is thrust upon you.
not necessarily. In an office/company environment you get to use what the suits prescribe. If they prescribe linux, you use linux. My typist was happily using redhat 5.2 running wordperfect under dosemu and pine for mail for 4 years. It was a black box for her. But it never crashed and never had a virus and she got her work done.
World domination is not one of the goals of FOSS.
i thought it was - still think so
Also increasingly the attitude I am seeing on this list is: I am using linux. Linux is free. Linux has a active community. You people are bound to help me by answering all my queries however ill-researched they may be.
i see very little of this - except from newbies who come from a different environment and should be educated - not flamed and scared off
Linux may be free as in beer and as in freedom. But support is not a right, it is a privilege. That privilege is the reason why this list exists.
this list exists as part of a community obviously newbies have to be shown how to be part of the community. And it is not just support - i have made a lot of friends, got to know many like minded people and thanks to this list could have an opportunity to meet them - not only in Mumbai, but in many other places too. In fact, with the easy access to the info on the web nowadays, support is becoming a very minor part of the list