[Gnhlug-org] Re: adult ed classes on Linux

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:30:30 EST
Randy Edwards said:

>    One question would be: what distro are you going to teach?  I would 
>reluctantly suggest Red Hat.  Its GUI admin tools are more Windows-like and 
>it's popular.  If you go with Knoppix (cool idea) you have to teach Debian, 
>which means basically no GUI admin tools and plus the complexity of explaining
>Knoppix compared to a typical hard drive install.

I personally don't see teaching command line tools as a problem.  
Conversely, I see it as a benefit, since the GUIs are essentially 
unique to each distro, whereas the command line tools are (for the 
most part) the same not only from distro to distro, but also carry 
over more generally to most flavors of UNIX.

Of course, it all boils down to one question:

	What are you trying to teach?

Are you going for basic sys admin stuff, pure end-user functionality, 
etc.?
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