Linux - You Can Do It!

[br_prashant]

Yes, Linux is conquering. I found Mandriva 2007 to be at least as stable as Win XP. Boys, it simply lacks all the failures I met before!!!

Hey. I am a new comer to linux. ave been using or atleast seeing windows form the day of MS-DOS. But i seem to difer from the dull heads you have been discussing about. I seem to like linux even with its CLI.
The way i see it, Linux makes me work around my problem. Instead of just giving me a click and drag solution for all my problems it makes me earn my solution. I will have to understand whats happening and then the entire com is in my control. Not like windows were everytnig is behind the scene and you generally dont know were the problem is or what went wrong.

But i seem to have a small problem. Since i am new i agree that i come up with a problem a little often than i should and end up reading a lot to find out whats happening. But is this the only way to know linux. If i will have to know more about how to go about the CLI where do i star from? A text which blindly tells me this command does this and goes on or should i carry on by doing what ever i can and find a solution for every thing i stumble upon?
Any advice?

[minthaka]

But i seem to have a small problem. Since i am new i agree that i come up with a problem a little often than i should and end up reading a lot to find out whats happening. But is this the only way to know linux. If i will have to know more about how to go about the CLI where do i star from? A text which blindly tells me this command does this and goes on or should i carry on by doing what ever i can and find a solution for every thing i stumble upon?
Any advice?

You should ask people from Linuxforums. We are available for you to help.
You shall have to seek for solutions.

[br_prashant]

. We are available for you to help.
You shall have to seek for solutions.

I agree that i will have to seek for my solution but that does not gaurentee that i can know everything from scratch.
I am from INDIA and am planning to start an new distro with as much facility to make the computer reach people of all languages...
I guess i need to start from the kernekut i feel that instead of srarting it entirely new i would base it on some other distro!!!
Now where or whome do you thjink i will have to ask ???
If you tell that i will ask it here then here i am asking for help!
To start a distro that can be too bloody easy to clone to one of the 18 different languags or atleast a subset with similar grammers. that can reach both the tsunami affected fisher's kid and the business man sitting on the beach for his vacation!!!!!!!!!

and "minthaka" Your name sounds Indian. Are you ?

[techieMoe]

and "minthaka" Your name sounds Indian. Are you ?

I could be wrong (and correct me please) but I believe minthaka is Serbian. At least, that's what I found when I looked up Vojvodina.

[minthaka]

I could be wrong (and correct me please) but I believe minthaka is Serbian. At least, that's what I found when I looked up Vojvodina.

"Minthaka", or correctly Mintaka is originally the arabic name of the Delta star in Orion constellation. It means "the Belt", since it is the rightest star in the Orion's belt. I like astronomy and geography since my small ages ( instead of reading tales I used to fell asleep with my world geographical atlas, as I was 7 years old.) That's why I'm using this nickname. Has it some meaning in Hindi too?
I'm a Serbian citizen, living as a member of Hungarian minority in Vojvodina.
My real name is Csaba (=shepherd in Turkish, adopted by Hungarians).
That's all of me!

[techieMoe]

I'm a Serbian citizen, living as a member of Hungarian minority in Vojvodina.

A word of advice: never buy a Hungarian-English phrasebook. They're known to be rather silly.

[minthaka]

O.K. Techie! I won't. But you know, it's sometimes hard to explain even for the Europeans how can I be a Hungarian, if I'm living in Serbia. I'm a member of Hungarian minority of Vojvodina. Is it correct now? I already wanted to ask somebody to correct my English, since I only have the basic-level course, so I'm not perfect in it, and definitely not as good as native Englishmen.

[br_prashant]

Now this post has gone quiet far from where it started! I dint start it And dont have any offences.
And While you asked if it had a meanig in Hindi! I Dont know Hindi and Have no associations to it either. I am on the other side of India where Hindi is a distant language.
The "tha" or "ka" in the name made it sound Indian.Well you tell its Arabian. Now that is close to Sindi(Spoken largely in Pakistan and India) which is close to Hindi. makes it sound very much a sub-Continental name.

So do you see how languages are a problem haere. There Was a recent addvertisemnt on India which amazed me by telling that there are about 1700 odd dialects of the different languages in Indian Alone.And most of them are very much in use today, while only 18 of them made it to the list of the National language.
So probablly a very useful tool would be to make the OS speak their language.
where do i get to know more on the kernel and the entire distro???
You willing to help?

[br_prashant]

Welllwhen i was not seven years old but i heard about the Orion the Hunter when i was in my eight grade i.e. i was about 13 years old and yeah i kind of remember the name now.
I dont really slep with the atlas , i atleast love gazing at the sky. Good thanks to you i rememberd the constellation again...

[bigvoo]

I feel exactly like BR, I came to linux not looking for a windows clone, but something as far from it as possible. I started on macs, and never understood the bragging the PC guys do, once i started using windows machines at work. I watched a guy on the dos command line once, and it went bonkers right in front of me, and locked up. To me the thing that's going to bring the most people to linux, is the thousands of viruses and trojans that just plague the pc world. I'm just starting to read about the command line, my walls are plastered with notes for commands.