[PLUG] [OT ? ?? ???] Linux and computer literacy

[Tyrell Jentink]

I don't consider this to be off topic...

But aren't you the one that lives (Several states) east of Estacada? How is
any advice I'm about to give going to help anyone? In light of that...

The county libraries in Reno, NV offer classes in open source software.
Last I looked (Erm... Several years ago), it was "Mostly" OpenOffice.org
and Firefox literacy, but they promised to teach them on Linux machines...
So maybe it matured well.

The county libraries in Kalispell, MT don't even HAVE windows computers
(Or, they didn't when I was last there, again, several years ago);
Everything was based on multiple terminal nodes plugged into central
servers running Linux (As early as 2006, no less!), And they also offered
classes...

So... I guess if "libraries that know Microsoft has competition" are what
your after... Yes, they exist.

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, 15:29 Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

> I have two questions I wish to discuss.
> Both likely push the limits of being "On Topic".
> Is there a forum on which either (preferably *BOTH*) would be "On Topic"?
>
> The more general question
>
> On my last visit to our local public library I picked up a glossy 16
> page four color brochure titled _Free Computer Training and Professional
> Development Resources_ .
>
> In that brochure the word "Mac" occurs twice. "Linux" *NEVER* occurs.
> Keyboarding skills are mentioned. They also ask the question "Does
> grammar matter?"
>
> Can anyone point me to a "library like" resource  recognizing that
> Micro$oft has competition?
>
> There has to be somebody with more "academic integrity".
>
> My second question has only a temporal relationship to above.
>
> For IDIOSYNCRATIC and weird local constraints I am working on networking
> *TWO* computers via a "USB MASTER-USB MASTER" cable. There are
> "cookbook"{sic/sick}" for "normal"(sic) users with ethernet.
>
> I've been asking questions on a distro specific list.
> The predominant response is *DON'T*
>
> Ignoring the *TRIVIAL* aspects of technical(sick) aspects
> I wish to do XYZ, That the rest of world does pqrz is *IRRELEVANT*
> I have already found *EDUCATIONAL* value in chosen path.
>
> Where may I ask *MY* questions without being told to "get lost"?
>
> TIA
>
>
>
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