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Posted: Jan. 09 2004,19:18 QUOTE

I've been to so many different Linux forums to read for help and ocasionally even post.  :;): You just wouldn't believe - or maybe you would - how many of those sites are run by rude people who insult newbies, delete their posts because they assume the poster didn't look for an answer first, and so on. If that weren't bad enough, a lot of the regular posters would post just to complain about newbies asking for help.

This board has turned out to be a wonderful surprise. The posters are nice and polite, the mod/developer/site owner is polite and involved, and some of the posts seem to be written by people who actually know what they're talking about.  :D

Thanks, guys. Keep it up.


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Posted: Jan. 12 2004,21:44 QUOTE

Ditto! I've found the exact same thing. Kudos galore to the folks here. And thanks for being understanding to those of us with less expertise.
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Posted: Jan. 13 2004,02:29 QUOTE

You are so right.  Many of the other forums belittle newcomers and insult them for not having read the manual (often referred to with the acronym "RTFM"  !!!  Well, if you are a newbie to Linux you probably don't know where the manuals/docs are anyway.  Everything is easy when you know how to do it, hard when you don't.
DSL is what has kept me working on Linux.  
I tried it out several times but never stuck with it because it was so frustrating.  Well DSL does such a great job of hardware detection it makes it easy to get it going.  Then you can play around all you want without worry of messing anything up because it's SO EASY to start over, rather than tedious re-install of the big distro's.
The main big plus of DSL is that you don't have to try to turn your main system into a dual-boot or take the big step of converting over from Win to Lin in one big step, because if you have an old system lying around that doesn't cut it for Windows anymore, it will probably run DSL easily.  If you don't have one lying around you can pick one up for CHEAP and it will be a usable system that you can practice and study and play with all you want to and it will still be a very usable practical machine to get work done on.  
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Posted: Jan. 16 2004,20:42 QUOTE

aweSOME !!!!

love it... more more...
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Posted: Jan. 16 2004,21:17 QUOTE

This is the best forum I have found. I love learning about linux and helping people. I think the reason this forum is so good is because is it just about DSL. So if you ask a question about something odds are that the person who answers your question has had exactly the same problem and knows where to go to fix it. John has done a great thing here.
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