<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Simon Wears <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:munkyjunky@googlemail.com">munkyjunky@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Its very informative, and I actually learned a bit from it, but it was far too detailed for me to be able to sit and read happily. If I was trying to educate my mum on Linux, I may send her to it since my explanations failed.<br> <font color="#888888"><br>Simon Wears<div><a href="mailto:MunkyJunky@Gmail.com" target="_blank">MunkyJunky@Gmail.com</a> | <a href="http://MunkyJunky@Gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://MunkyJunky@Gmail.com" target="_blank">http://MunkyJunky@Gmail.com</a></div> <div>MunkyJunky on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net" target="_blank">irc.freenode.net</a></div></font></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div><br>On 26 Feb 2009, at 16:36, Guy Thouret <<a href="mailto:lists@thouret.co.uk" target="_blank">lists@thouret.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br> <br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> Wow, that comic is truely awful. I feel sorry for the person who put all that effort into the graphics, I really liked the attention to detail with the penguin receiving a call on his OpenMoko Freerunner. Shame the text was so bad - this is definitely NOT the message that should be put out there.<br> <br> Guy.<br> <br> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 11:58 +0000, John Levin wrote: <blockquote type="CITE"> <pre>"Hackett and Bankwell is a series of cartoon manuals that teaches readers how to get started with Linux-based operating systems. The first issue is best for users who are interested in switching to Ubuntu, including those who have tried to make the jump to Linux in the past but got confused and went back to a commercial operating system." First issue downloadable for free. <a href="http://hackettandbankwell.com/" target="_blank">http://hackettandbankwell.com/</a> -- John Levin <a href="http://www.technolalia.org/blog/" target="_blank">http://www.technolalia.org/blog/</a></pre></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I thought that the comic was illustrated beautifully but I felt that some of the storyline made me feel a little uncomfortable. I feels like a bit of a (for want of a better word) FUD'dy attack against Microsoft. <br> <br>Somewhat sensationalist, evangelical and perhaps slanderous. The concept is fantastic but the delivery focusing on FUD is pretty bad and could scare people off.<br><br>Chris<br></div></div><br>