On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:52:10 +0200
James Mohr
--show them how to use mc :-) --introduce them to "hello world scripts" in bash and perl -> introduce them to init and the boot.local - autoexec.bat correlation
No "modern" Windows user knows anythings about booting, nor do they have to. Same thing applies to Linux. The users can hopefully asume that they're getting a competent sysadmin to do the hairy jobs, otherwise I wouldn't want to be responsible for this project.
Again depends on the audience. I tend to believe (at least hope) that people **wanting** to learn Linux will be receptive to more info. However, those that are *required* need to be "protected" a little.
Well the intended audience was India. And from what I've been seeing, Indians are beating the pants off of US students, in programming and technical skills in general. Places like MIT are filling up with Indian students, and just about all programming contracts are going to "offshore Indian programming sweatshops". I think the Indian audience can handle the details. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation