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   From: Hadron    
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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:24:23 +1300   
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   »Q«  writes:   
      
   > In ,   
   > Bernard Peek  wrote:   
   >   
   >> The paragraph you quoted has some clues to what the real problem is.   
   >> The phrase "if the Linux _community_ want newbies to try out and   
   >> switch to Linux" is the key. There are an awful lot of hidden   
   >> assumptions behind that, and while they stay hidden a lot of people   
   >> are going to be talking at cross-purposes without really   
   >> communicating much.   
   >>    
   >> The first assumption is that there is such a thing as "the linux    
   >> community." There are lots of individuals and groups that use or   
   >> develop Linux but I don't think that there is a Linux community that   
   >> "want newbies to try out and switch to Linux."   
   >   
   > I agree, but isn't that one of the primary goals of the /Ubuntu/   
   > community, if not the single most important one?  The SABDFL points to   
   > it as the first answer to "Why do I do Ubuntu?", at   
   > , and I'd assumed most   
   > Ubuntuers shared that reason with him.   
      
   Ubuntu is not "Linux". It is one distro with its own personal   
   agenda. That is the point.   
      
   The previous poster was right. There is no "Linux community" as a   
   general rule. Generic Linux help is rare especially since the different   
   distros start doing things their own way. Its one of the biggest hurdles   
   when getting into Linux - to sort the google results for your distro and   
   not to risk your system integrity by doing something meant for another   
   distro.   
      
      
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