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Originally Posted by nirubhai
would u expect a layman, who don't know anything about computers, to learn linux/unix???
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Well, the layman is a perfect candidate to teach unix. Lemme explain why. It's all in the learning. The layman first has to understand the hardware basics, and the reason for software and the difference, and also the need for an operating system. Its pretty easy to explain all these things to a layman. Once he knows this info, he can get ready to enter the world of computers- through any path he wishes to choose- Windows, DOS, Linux, Unix, etc.
I said its easy because, its like the learning process of a baby. Obviously the baby will master the spoken language, since that was the only language the baby was exposed too. We might think that learning german might be difficult now. But if a baby is taught is taught german right from the start, then the baby will master the german language. Its similar to learning about OSs. People used to the friendly and familar windows environment have difficulty, and fear the *nix environment. The best way to learn another OS is to understand the basics of the OS first- how it works, what the difference, the filesystem, etc. Once a user has mastered the basics, it would be a snap to work in the OS. The best way to learn *nix would be to understand the command line interface first, since thats the basic mode. I've seen many prople eagar to use Linux getting discouraged by looking at totally new terms such as hda, root, shell, tty etc. Thats the reason why they must first learn the basics of a *nix system. Then it'll all work out fine......