Sarath Lakshman said on Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:29:15AM -0800,:
for the first time. I myself installed it?then I was a windows user.
You mean that you were using Microsoft Windows, don't you?? Please recall that knoppix, and AFAIK, SLYLINUX have windowing systems, which display Windows on the screen.
Sarath, it is a very bad, bad world out there. Please be very, very accurate in use of terminology. It is very, very, very important.
First of all ? My attraction was captured on it?s GUI. I felt it was nice. I didn?t know any shell comments or other functions in Gnu/Linux that time. My only tool was mouse pointer?like windows I used it.
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my friends. They used it for 5 or 6 days and said ??What Linux? Even we can?t use it friendly..No one didn?t understand the program names.?
Ah. You and your friends came to opposing conclusions about the same interface? That is natural. `User friendliness' is a matter of personal taste.
I decided to make a user favourable Remaster of Knoppix with a lot of features.
Certainly you are welcome. But, please do join some of the live CD projects. Tell them what changes you made to the Knoppix CD.
commands?.. For creating SLYNUX, I had spent most of night ( about to 3.30 A.M) for months for getting my effort to a success?.In some days of a little bit success?I had jumped with glad.
? Advanced users of Linux will not understand the problems faced by common windows users who tried out Linux and disappointed?.Because they have a wide possibility of getting info abt Linux ( Through LUGs, FSF community etc).
Eeek!!!! Every body, including you (and of course me) started the same, hard way. Long sleepless nights, hard work, several installs, reinstalls, system crashes, misconfigurations, etc. I do believe that advanced users, *and* programmers do understand ordinary users' problems.
I have some plans to create an LUG in Mahe. Hope that FSF will help me..
Have a look at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html
Also, see http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html, and in particular, http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3
I?m now studying 10th Standard (SCERT syllabus)?.After my Exams I could spend more time on Linux.
Heavens, my dear!!! It is March, and your exams are toward end of this month, no??? Please do complete that.