Rutebook and a lot more

[Doug Pollard]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2008/8/27 Young <tuxman at knology.net <mailto:tuxman at knology.net>>
>
>     So where is it?
>
>     See below.
>     ---------------------
>     BEGIN RANT
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>
>
>
>     SUGGESTION:gh "bang for the
>     buck" ratio. Very easy to create, and very useful.
>
>     To Make a Link, or not to Make a Link:
>
>     convoluted logic of the story about permissions. It's an attitude
>     problem.
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>     I
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>     END RANT
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>     /usr/share/doc/rutebook/ is where Synaptic properties told me was.
>
>     The HTML front page is:
>     /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.html
>     when double clicked it opened in my browser as:
>     file:///usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/rute.html
>     which you can then bookmark.
>
>     The PDF version is in
>     /usr/share/doc/rutebook/rute.pdf.gz
>     It would be really nice if you could make a link to this, but you
>     can't.
>     And you can't extract it either. So, copy it to your chosen place,
>     then
>     extract it if you want, and put it where you want to now, and even
>     Make
>     a Link if you want.
>
>
>
>
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>
    My thinking is if the already angry convert from Windows is told, 
and he is, that if he does normal desktop stuff he will not have to go 
into the terminal at all.  The most important document on the computer 
to the newby is Rutebook or some other helpful tutorial  presents a 
catch 22 for him. and that is "use commands in terminal" to get to 
rutebook so you can "learn how to use commands in the terminal."   
DAH!!................   If he needs to study before hand he should be 
told that.  Microsoft is the one that needs to hide things not us. 
People are being told this and it is just not true. Sooner or later and 
it's likely sooner, some package will load through synaptic with a 
problem in it and The guy is going to have to use the terminal.  That's 
a fact. 
   Linux is better off not to have people come to it that have to go 
back to windows because they tell everyone they know, that "Linux is a 
disaster". No matter what we think it is a disaster for that person and 
they don't keep it to themselves.  A newby can spend one heck of a lot 
of time trying online tutorials and help documents just trying to find 
something to learn the terminal from.  Remember he hasn't learned 
anything yet. If he gets on this list and someone frustrated with his 
dumb question and inability to put in even simple commands, implies that 
he is lazy  for not reading he is angry because his feelings are hurt. 
He has been attacked !! He should be able to click applications Rutebook 
and that followed by all the other categories of applications.  If the 
writer will allow it just the sections on terminal would be good for 
starters.   The desktop does not require a lot of reading  it is pretty 
self evident for most ex window users.
 
                                                         Doug