Comments on: Linux Installation Guide: So easy, even your grandmother could do it! http://crashsystems.net/2008/05/wubi-guide/ Home of Crashsystems LLC, and a blog about miscellaneous things Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:53:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Douglass Clem http://crashsystems.net/2008/05/wubi-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Douglass Clem Wed, 21 May 2008 18:33:48 +0000 http://crashsystems.net/?p=27#comment-14 Though I respect jg's and BCK's right to use whatever names they want, I disagree with their underlying premise. If I were to write a "Linux" installation guide, what would it look like? Would it be a guide for installing Fedora, Slackware or Mandriva? No, because all of these are distributions of Linux, just like Ubuntu is. If I were to write a guide by this title that fit this extremely restrictive perspective of what is Linux, then I would write on how to download a source tarball and compile it. This guide is for non-geeks, so teaching them how to compile their kernel wouldn't be very effective. I'm amazed at the amount of brand recognition "Linux" has, in spite of all the people online being so up tight about names. When I install Ubuntu on a computer, I'm installing Linux, because that is the kernel that it uses. The same would be true if the distro were Fedora or any other distro. Though I respect jg’s and BCK’s right to use whatever names they want, I disagree with their underlying premise. If I were to write a “Linux” installation guide, what would it look like? Would it be a guide for installing Fedora, Slackware or Mandriva? No, because all of these are distributions of Linux, just like Ubuntu is. If I were to write a guide by this title that fit this extremely restrictive perspective of what is Linux, then I would write on how to download a source tarball and compile it. This guide is for non-geeks, so teaching them how to compile their kernel wouldn’t be very effective.

I’m amazed at the amount of brand recognition “Linux” has, in spite of all the people online being so up tight about names. When I install Ubuntu on a computer, I’m installing Linux, because that is the kernel that it uses. The same would be true if the distro were Fedora or any other distro.

]]> By: gj http://crashsystems.net/2008/05/wubi-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-13 gj Wed, 21 May 2008 18:17:40 +0000 http://crashsystems.net/?p=27#comment-13 @jg: this is nonsense, i'd call it a geeky arrogant attitude against newcomers to linux. Ubuntu is a kind of linux. what you might mean is that linux is not a kind of ubuntu. this last, case, however, is meaningless for those who never used any linux distro. for them, any distro is a linux, and you should let them find out the different linux by themselves, with time. did you always know the difference between iowa and kentucky, or someone told you once you were in school and interested in american states? as an analogy, is it wrong to label americans those people from iowa and kentucky, when your interlocutor cannot tell iowa from kentucky? @jg: this is nonsense, i’d call it a geeky arrogant attitude against newcomers to linux.

Ubuntu is a kind of linux. what you might mean is that linux is not a kind of ubuntu. this last, case, however, is meaningless for those who never used any linux distro. for them, any distro is a linux, and you should let them find out the different linux by themselves, with time. did you always know the difference between iowa and kentucky, or someone told you once you were in school and interested in american states? as an analogy, is it wrong to label americans those people from iowa and kentucky, when your interlocutor cannot tell iowa from kentucky?

]]> By: BCK http://crashsystems.net/2008/05/wubi-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-12 BCK Wed, 21 May 2008 14:40:42 +0000 http://crashsystems.net/?p=27#comment-12 I agree with jg, ubuntu installation guide would have been a better choice I agree with jg, ubuntu installation guide would have been a better choice

]]> By: jg http://crashsystems.net/2008/05/wubi-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-11 jg Wed, 21 May 2008 05:43:13 +0000 http://crashsystems.net/?p=27#comment-11 Please rename your article to "Ubuntu installation Guide". Ubuntu is _not_ Linux. Your article is clearly all about Ubuntu installation. Please rename your article to “Ubuntu installation Guide”. Ubuntu is _not_ Linux. Your article is clearly all about Ubuntu installation.

]]> By: Linux Installation Guide: So easy, even your grandmother could do it! http://crashsystems.net/2008/05/wubi-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Linux Installation Guide: So easy, even your grandmother could do it! Tue, 20 May 2008 17:18:08 +0000 http://crashsystems.net/?p=27#comment-10 [...] shuttercraft wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI’ve written this guide with non-geeks in mind. A year ago I always did installations for my friends. With recent advancements in Ubuntu Linux, this is no longer necessary. This guide assumes you are currently running Windows, … [...] [...] shuttercraft wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI’ve written this guide with non-geeks in mind. A year ago I always did installations for my friends. With recent advancements in Ubuntu Linux, this is no longer necessary. This guide assumes you are currently running Windows, … [...]

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