Re: [PLUG] pointers for newbies by us oldies

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:48:55PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
>   [14 lines, 84 words, 714 characters]  Top characters:- etnoasr
> 
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:21:27PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson said:
> > What do you guys give to the computer literate but not computer
> > expert person who expresses interest in linux?
> 
> http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.gz
> 
> It's not perfect, and it's a little dated, but it gets some of the
> conceptual parts across reasonably well.

That's an excellent intro for you or me, thanks for sharing it.  But I
think it will scare away my Windows-using friend who uses Office and
MSIE as his two main app suites and sees a computer as mostly that.  I
think I need to point him at something that doesn't ever require
running an xterm variant.

-- 
 Jeff

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