Subject: Re: Stop the slingin' and cheer the heroes! (was Better than YDL and OSX)
From: Christopher Murtagh (christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 23:25:02 MST
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Donn Shaw wrote:
>Do we put your remarks of the email in question up to a bad day? bad
>RAM? a brownout?
Why don't you just put it to getting ticked about someone posting a
message to a mailing list that had 'Take me off this list' as the subject
(something already deserving any flame it receives) and then proceeding to
whine about something that was unrealistic ('I expected an interface to
tie everything together and make the server set up easier').
Personally, I would never trust an interface to 'tie everything together
and make the server setup easier'. The trade off would usually be lack of
control, or security holes (like NT for example). Setting up a
Linux/Unix/Foo/even NT server is not easy at first, but learning how to do
it isn't hard either, it just takes time.
I have a lot of sympathy for newbies, and I try to help out whenever I
can, but I have no sympathy for people who can't follow simple netiquette
and then whine about getting flamed. I don't know of any decent 'Learn
Linux' books, though I don't doubt there are some, I was fortunate enough
to have come from a NeXTSTEP and IRIX background before using Linux as
well as some good computer science courses/profs. If I do find some decent
books, I'll post them here.
Cheers,
Chris
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