Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <twe-suse.e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Tue, 03 Jun 2003, zentara@xxxxxxxxxxx:

> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:52:10 +0200
> James Mohr <suse_mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> > --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.

I agree on this one, Indian people seem to have a special gene for IT
work (or is it that they'r just very eager to get ahead?)

Theo
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