[linux-help] Re: Info

[Michael Bainum <mbainum@xxxxxxxxxx>]

    I would like to make some suggestions, just in case this whole 
fiasco wasn't a troll.  1st)  If you are truly interested in Linux, then 
play around with it at home on a secondary system/harddrive.  This will 
give you the time needed to climb the very steep learning curve, 
understand how linux works, and why it has such a good rap.  2nd)  Use 
the command line.  I know this is foreign to most of the Windows people 
but believe it or not you can do more, faster on the command line than 
in a gui.  If I where to [guess] at your problem I would say that the 
Kpackages program was your whole problem.  3rd)  Do your homework, ie. 
 RTFM.   In the very least attend a couple of aclug meetings, this will 
get you in with the right crowd, and you can sponge knowledge off of the 
'experts'.
    These comments and suggestions where not meant to be cynical or 
sarcastic.  Please don't take them that way, they where meant to be a 
help and to point you in the right direction.  There is a right and a 
wrong, even in computer science.

The PC-Zone wrote:

>I would love to provide more info, but when asked to do something, or asked
>like what output I am using, I am immediatly lost.  I would love to cut and
>past os items for you, but I am using my Microsoft Windows 2000 Server to
>access the internet, I have not bothered putting the Linux machine online
>other then to download A program or two.  Now what is happening, and the
>only reason I know this is becuase a guy that has had a little more
>experince then me called, and talked to me for a few Minutes (I finally
>found some one that was willing to explain what the hell they where talking
>about).  I am using Kpackages, and when I click install, it takes me to the
>next selection where I choose the program I want to install, and when I put
>a check mark by the program I want, and click install next, it takes me
>right back to the beggining.
>On antoher Note, I would love to read the manual, if I had one!
>Now on a more up note, my corporation, just authorized me to throw Linux out
>the door, and go t back to all Microsoft Windows  2000© Machines,.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <>
>To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 1:00 PM
>Subject: [linux-help] Re: help installing programs
>

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