Re: [tlug] State of "Linux" documentation [was: Books]

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> 2008/6/8 Kenneth M. Burling Jr. <burlingk@example.com>:
>
>   
> > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 17:19 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Scott Robbins writes:
> > >
> > >  > Well, one problem is that a book on say, RedHat, isn't going to help
> > >  > that much with Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > You're kidding, I hope.  If that's really true, how sad.
> > >       
> > Why would it be sad?
> >     
>
> Because a book that does not teach you UNIX in such a way that you can
> swim on any UNIX flavour is not worth the paper it's printed on or the
> electrons it takes to transmit it, that's why.
>   

The problem is that most current distributions are designed to capture 
the windows market and so aim to keep users in their pretty distro 
specific GUI creations away from all that UNIX commonness.

Edward