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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:57:44 -0600   
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   In ,   
   Hadron  wrote:   
      
   > »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.   
      
   Since this thread has taken place here in a.o.l.ubuntu, I'd thought the   
   issues about whether new users should be shielded from CLI were about   
   how the Ubuntuers should handle Ubuntu users with questions.   
      
   But my question wasn't actually rhetorical.     
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