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SlashNET Forum with Marcel Gagne

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the getting-to-know dept.

weebl writes "SlashNET is pleased to announce an upcoming forum with Marcel Gagne. He writes the 'Cooking with Linux' column every month for Linux Journal magazine. His first book was the acclaimed Linux System Administration: A User's Guide. Recently he wrote a book called Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!, which is intended for consumer desktop users who are curious about Linux and want to give it a test run. The forum will be held on Monday February 23, 2004 at 8PM US Eastern Standard Time (-0500). As usual, the forum will be held in #forum. You will be able to submit questions both before and during the forum which will be used to guide the discussion."

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  1. Re:Distributions by mumkin · · Score: 4, Informative

    How do you handle the recurring debates over distributions? What would you recommend to someone who wants to try moving to Linux but can't afford to spend countless hours getting it to install - installing Windows XP only takes me 30 minutes and everything works.

    I would recommend that you drop into the #forum channel of irc.slashnet.org around 8pm EST this evening and ask Marcel Gagne. :)

  2. The logs will be at slashnet.org by chmod_localhost · · Score: 5, Informative

    For some reason, nobody ever bothers to mention where the logs of the Slashdot IRC forums get posted. After the IRC interview with CmdrTaco and Hemos a few months ago, it took me some digging to figure out where the log wound up.

    For those who can't make the chat, the log will eventually be at http://www.slashnet.org/forums/

    Editors: After the chat is over, any chance of having the log URL linked to the story text as an update?

  3. Linux needs more Marcels by embill · · Score: 5, Informative

    In my opinion, Marcel provides an intelligent, readable, and most importantly FUN introduction to Linux. A first line of support for many Linux newbie's is their local LUG mailing list where more often than not (but not always) they're berated by the local alphageeks for asking a question that's been answered 100 times previously on the list or in scads of documentation. Unfortunately, newbies just want things to work, they don't want to know how it works. These types of responses usually result in their retreat back to the safety of Windows. Whether we like it or not, the latter situation is only going to increase, as more and more users migrate to Linux. Marcel's book stands as an excellent resource for anyone newbie's who don't mind doing a little reading. And for those who don't, Marcel offers both a mailing list and an IRC channel (#wftl on server: www.marcelgagne.com) for painless, alphageek free help.

  4. Re:Please! by dbc · · Score: 3, Informative

    Indeed!! That stuff drives me nuts. At first, I tried to slog through his crap to find out what he was trying to say, but that French chef schtick just got in the way. Pretty quickly, I just started completely ignoring his columns. Then I dropped the magazine. It was an easy decision... which of two Linux magazines do I want to continue paying for? Easy: shit-can the FRENCH CHEF magazine.

    Hrumph.