Beta 8.10 released

[Brendan]

On Wednesday 08 October 2008, Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > Like the famous "Repair connection" button. What does it do? No clue. Can
> > I find out? Not really. But in Linux, I can gain that knowledge. In
> > Windows, would I know anything about what DHCP is, etc? Nope.
>
> Double ?? You're just not make sense, what does the op. sys. have to do
> with knowing what DHCP is? I started of with windows and knew these things
> quite independently of that.

Honestly, if you took a second to actually read and not fire off an email as 
quick as you could click, I think what I said was fairly easy to grok. Please 
pause for reflection before replying, it'll open up a whole new world.

> If your point is that Windows is GUI driven - so what? Linux can be as well
> - what list do you think we're on? hint - its a GUI for Linux.

I am not trying to fight with you, but explain what you aren't getting.
BTW, with version 4 of KDE, it's more than a GUI, but rather an underlying set 
of libraries that other programs can use. 

> Neither of these have any bearing on the underlying op.sys, kernel etc.

No, that was not my point. The point is that clicking a button without any 
knowledge of what it's doing teaches nothing. Windows is not a system where 
interaction teaches or gives the user the access to materials to learn from. 
So, it becomes a "use-click only" interface, not as with Linux which comes 
with docs, man pages, scripts written in easily-understandable languages that 
I can learn from.
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