Al Margheim wrote:
> As a newbie, I have to chime in here and express my frustration at RedHat
> for changing adduser. I too bought books to help me learn linux and both
> of them state that if you run adduser without any arguments that it will
> prompt you through the process of adding a user. By changing adduser from
> what is apparently standard behavior on other unix and linux distributions,
> RedHat made it more difficult to use.
Pardon me; I'm relatively new to the Linux discussion world, but have been in
Unix since about 1980; taught internals at BTL ca 1982-4. So, I may not reflect
the general Linux community; but I do like to believe I still know something
about SW development.
I would suggest that you look at Linux as an experience at the edge. It isn't
staid, conventional, or predictable. OTOH, you *do* have source. Books will
trail what's available. You may buy a package; I did. RedHat saved me the
time involved in downloading all the disparate parts of Linux. BUT I never
thought it would be as slow to evolve as a "commercial" OS. I've already
patched my tape driver, and then modified the patch to speed up the data
transfers.
Linux is, at the end, one of the few bleeding edge, volatile, and evolving
systems we can indulge in the late '90s. It feels far more like what it was
like at BTL in '80--we have source, we have access, and we *can* change it.
The down side is that it's going to be rough on newbies; things just don't stay
predictable. That's what these groups are for.
Cheers,
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Dave "Feeling greybearded and curmudgeonly at the same time" Ihnat
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