Hold the phone here...

The current thread is whether or not LNX-BBC should be usable and/or useful to someone not
familiar with the interfaces of the GNU operating system using the Linux kernel. I, personally,
feel that LNX-BBC and other distributions similar to LNX-BBC could immensely help someone new to
the Free Software movement. The newcomer is often intimidated by the thought of re-formatting
their hard drive or installing software that isn't put together in one nice, neat package. Having
a CD-only, no-install distribution is a shiny jewel that will alleviate their uneasiness. In this
respect, I feel that having CD-only distributions be both usable and usefull is important.

Suppose I'm still learning and I didn't know about the "man" command that would help me find out
about manual pages. (I do, but I often find man pages hard to read/grasp, and I often can't find
the correct key sequence to get out of "man". An 'x' button on the upper right would be more
obvious than some cryptic key sequence.) Or suppose I didn't know there were such a program as
"cdrecord". (I didn't, because I'm still learning.) What would I be to do then? An answer in a FAQ
would help me realize that there is a way to burn CD's with the GNU/Linux system, and it would
even give me the command sequence to type in order to do so. Because I'm used to being hand-held
with the Windows platform, and because the CLI (command-line interface) can often be intimidating
to me, having this kind of information on the LNX-BBC Web site is immensely helpful. This kind of
consideration to the "newcomer" will help them ease out of their GUI shells and become more
comfortable with the CLI environment.

-- 
Christopher Parker <[email protected]>

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Christopher Parker <[email protected]>
     Council Member -- Society of the Onyx Star <http://www.societyonyxstar.org/>
     Associate Member #795 -- Free Software Foundation <http://www.fsf.org/>
     Personal Site: http://www.cparker15.com/