Comments on: FAQ for Beginners (Volume-II)

By: lol

lol — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:35:14 +0000

This is a page for beginners, and you’ve written words like M$. No honestly, no hate here, but why do you Linux people call it M$ or micro$oft? And how the hell are beginners supposed to understand what m$ here means?

By: How to learn Linux - Part I — Linux Users Group Manipal

How to learn Linux - Part I — Linux Users Group Manipal — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:03:14 +0000

[...] Before getting started please read these two FAQ: FAQ 1 and FAQ 2 [...]

By: fork.daemon

fork.daemon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:07:38 +0000

Serioslu speaking, the term “compatibility layer” does sound better and non geeky than an Emulator when describing WINE.

It is better to teach right the first time rather than teaching wrong and then correcting it.

And I think apt needs to be mentioned in repostiories or a separate topic with mention of other similar tools like yum, emerge, etc.

While discussing just deb and rpm it is better to explain using dpkg which is the actual tool for package installtion in a Debian System. APT is just a front end for it, if you plan to use repositories.

By: Manish

Manish — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:27:48 +0000

I understand that,but its really tough to tell these to a beginner. None understand the word “compatibility layer”.
Again, its like teaching them wrong.

Crossover was started as a move to improve MS Office’s support over Wine.

BTW WINE means “Wine is not Emulator”

By: Easwar Hariharan

Easwar Hariharan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:51:55 +0000

WINE is actually not an emulator.WINE devs prefer to call it a Windows compatibility layer for GNU/Linux.
Also,Crossover and Wine are both made by the same devs,AFAIK,and I believe it’s not muft,but it’s mukt.