Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 12, 2005 09:01 PM
Roblimo's approach is just plain wrong:
1) "Point and Click Linux" wholly ignores one of the basic foundation of GNU/Linux which is *knowledge* expressed somewhat crudely by the RTFM concept. 2) "Point and Click Linux" uses MEPIS - a commercial NON-FREE distribution created by people who are actually hostile to the GPL. 3) The entire idea of "point and click" fundamentally overlooks one of the most powerful features of GNU/Linux - the command line - and fosters Mac like "ignorance through GUI". 4) Videos are cute, and quite popular among those challenged by the very activity of reading, but they will never empower anyone to use their computers to their real potential.
So while these books offer a welcome source of revenues to their author, and the videos are a good promotional trick, there is very little in all this anyone else can benefit from.
For those interested in GNU/Linux - make yourself and favor and get the very interesting, easy to read and highly educative and hands-on book "Knoppix Hacks" by Kyle Rankin which, among other things, will introduce you to a distro far superior to Mepis, and one which is *free* software!
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 12, 2005 09:01 PM1) "Point and Click Linux" wholly ignores one of the basic foundation of GNU/Linux which is *knowledge* expressed somewhat crudely by the RTFM concept.
2) "Point and Click Linux" uses MEPIS - a commercial NON-FREE distribution created by people who are actually hostile to the GPL.
3) The entire idea of "point and click" fundamentally overlooks one of the most powerful features of GNU/Linux - the command line - and fosters Mac like "ignorance through GUI".
4) Videos are cute, and quite popular among those challenged by the very activity of reading, but they will never empower anyone to use their computers to their real potential.
So while these books offer a welcome source of revenues to their author, and the videos are a good promotional trick, there is very little in all this anyone else can benefit from.
For those interested in GNU/Linux - make yourself and favor and get the very interesting, easy to read and highly educative and hands-on book "Knoppix Hacks" by Kyle Rankin which, among other things, will introduce you to a distro far superior to Mepis, and one which is *free* software!
<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/" title="oreilly.com">http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixhks/</a oreilly.com>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596007876?v=glance" title="amazon.com">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/059<nobr>6<wbr></nobr> 007876?v=glance</a amazon.com>
<a href="http://linuxgazette.net/119/howell.html" title="linuxgazette.net">http://linuxgazette.net/119/howell.html</a linuxgazette.net>
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