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

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:40:36 -0800 
Seth David Schoen<schoen at uclink4.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Actually, IDG has published _Linux for Dummies_.

I have both "Unix for Dummies" books (never seen the Linux one).
They're pretty good.  I've given them to a couple people now who
wanted to get a fairly quick ramp up into Unix or Linux, and they've
been very pleased with them.

> _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.

Ditto.  The Unix dummies books are a bit better.

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