Re: Annoyance -- Linux requires one to become an instant systems administrator

Thus quoth R. Bruce on Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:15:46PM -0700:
> 
>   What I find most annoying about Linux is that it requires an
> individual who wants to *use* Linux to immediately become a systems
> administrator.  That is to say, there doesn't seem to be a
> straightforward toehold from which one can begin *using* Linux without
> first learning a variety of bewildering and complex CLI-based tools and
> commands.  (Moreover, I'm mildly amused that many of the responses to
> annoyances submitted to this forum are answered by extremely
> administrator-intensive "solutions.")

The classic Minix manual greets the new user by telling (s)he is now
a Unix System Administrator. It may take some time to master, but then
you indeed have the necessary job qualification.

>   I'm luckier than most: I'd been a UNIX user (BSD 4.2) back in the mid
> '80s and so had some idea what I was looking at.  I knew, for example,
> what the vi editor was, what "man" did, how to use chmod, and so on.

So was I (on a Dec VAX), but then we had a sysadmin. 

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

-- 
	wat heb je nodig bij een uitzichtloos leven? euthanasie?
	nee, windows.
	van microsoft?
	nee, van glas.