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Re: [News] Linux Today is Easy, LinuxToday on 'Marketing' Linux


After takin' a swig o' grog, Ezekiel belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> I'd say list the item as: GParted (Partition Manager)  - or something like 
> that. Let's be realistic, anyone who is trying out Linux is by definition a 
> new user who isn't familiar with any of this stuff. They're already a bit 
> uncomfortable and hesitant with their new OS. You gotta at least give them 
> some /clues/ what these menu items are.

It does take awhile to get familiar with where everything is on a Linux
system.  Took me about a month before I felt comfortable, and I used
"linuxconf" as a crutch for quite awhile..

-- 
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote
peace than our governments.  Indeed, I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them
have it.
		-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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