[svlug] *****so this is what FUD tactics is !! *****

[Seth David Schoen]

RANDY HERRICK writes:

> hay fredie, there's a 
> reason no one has come out with a "Linux for dummie's" version--someday
> soon a "Linux for newbie's" but not for dummie's.--randy :)

Actually, IDG has published _Linux for Dummies_.

http://www.dummies.com/cgi/fill_out_template.pl?book:0-7645-0275-1:book-Dummies+Press::u2245

One of the authors is Jon "maddog" Hall.  It seems that his desire to write
in this series surprised a lot of people, but I've heard that his contribution
is pretty worthwhile.

I have never been an enthusiast of the idea of a series calling itself "for
dummies".  Sure, other books have emphasized in their titles that they'd
attempt to provide a gentle introduction to something for beginners: _Slide
Rule Simplified_, _The Royal Road to Card Magic_... but they don't so routinely
demean the arts they document and their devotees.

_DOS for Dummies_, perhaps the first and only _Dummies_ book I read, had a
strongly anti-geek, anti-technology, and occasionally vaguely anti-intellectual
slant to it.  My experience of it (quite a while ago) was that, instead of
inspiring the reader with a vision of what he could hope to learn in the
future, it discouraged him from learning detail and made fun of those who did.
As a geek, I did not get a positive feeling from it.

-- 
   Seth David Schoen L&S '01 (undeclared) / schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu
He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do."  And they
said, "Nay, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the
nations." (1 Sam 8)  http://ishmael.geecs.org/~sigma/   http://www.loyalty.org/

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