Re: Fwd: md5sum using Cygwin in Windows

[Paul Newell <pnewell at cs dot cmu dot edu>]

"Wow!  Zing!" ???

Hum ...

I would think a simple "yes, understanding Unix/Linux before dealing 
with Cygwin" would have been a bit more professional .. or, probably 
more to the point, encouraging one to pursue learning Unix/Linux.

Regarding his comment of Ubuntu being "newbie-friendly", I live in a 
RH/Fedora world and I was advised by Linux folks I respect to not try to 
bring my own system up under Ubuntu as it would confuse me since I am a 
programmer and not a sysAdmin guru. I'm not advocating RH/Fedora, but 
flavors on Linux are important and following this post gives me the 
sense that Cygwin is RH based (underscored by 
http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/). Hence, that might be a better 
model towards his understanding Linux and then Cygwin.

Paul
(the person who might be referred to in cgf's "Hmm.  Just got a similar 
question on irc a while ago.Cygwin doesn't use : or \." (23jun08, same 
thread) which may be fundamental but still a necessary learning 
experience by doing wrong and being corrected ... twice)

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:43:39PM -0700, Ben wrote:
>   
> > "The project is geared towards people who understand a UNIX(tm)
> > environment.  If that isn't you, then it's hard to see why you're
> > dabbling with Ubuntu."
> >
> > If I don't understand UNIX, then it's hard to see why I'm dabbling
> > with Ubuntu? Is that a mistype? Did you mean to say that it's easy to
> > see why I'm dabbling with Ubuntu, as it is generally thought to be a
> > newbie-friendly distro? Is there a more approachable way to understand
> > UNIX?
> >
> > It's no wonder that Linux has roughly 1% desktop market share with
> > that sort of attitude. Unfortunately, Ubuntu doesn't even display
> > right on my laptop, so it'll be a while yet before I do understand
> > Linux.
> >     
>
> Wow!  Zing!
>
> cgf
>
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