Re: Where Should Beginners Go?

From: ray (ray_at_zianet.com)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:42:17 -0700

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:42:23 +0000, rcook wrote:

> Perfectly seriously:
> Is there a newsgroup where beginners can get civil answers to
> beginner-type questions about Linux?
>
> There's obviously a lot of expertise in alt.os.linux, but there's also
> an enormous amount of hostility towards anyone whose questions don't
> meet your standards. Clearly this isn't the place to ask non-technical
> questions.
>
> So where is the place?
>
> --RC
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:40:09 -0700, oldNbald
> <prefer.privacy@home.okay?> wrote:
>
>>Dan C scratched on the wall:
>>
>>> Certainly one of the dumber questions seen around here lately.
>>[snip]
>>
>>Dan, What you've said is true, but go easy on him ... he's an MS user
>>and hasn't learned to think yet ;)
>
> That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
> --Friedrich Nietzsche
> Never get your philosophy from some guy who ended up in the looney bin.
> -- Wiz Zumwalt

You'll find a lot of your questions answered at www.distrowatch.com
www.yolinux.com and www.tldp.org