The AskMe page
Q:	Why did you make the Linux pages?
A:	1) To help friends of mine that are new to linux. 2) To impress my Linux- *BSD guru friends. 3) To give further assistance to users that get dizzy reading man pages (I got dizzy myself in the beginning) or do not know where to start from. 4) To share with experienced users some points of view. 5) To get help also. Being a teacher (and always a student) myself (music theory and piano), I want to give a more "educational" approach and to carefully contribute to the "procedure" of learning. So, these pages are neither "technical" nor "scientific". They are "informational" and "educational". Their main purpose is to take the reader to the point where he/she can finally reach knowledge by <him/her>self.
Q:	Why should I read the pages?
A:	For many reasons. You might want to test or use a *nix os. You might want just to be informed of it. Or, you may be wanting to know what's the position of the OS that you are using, comparing to others.
Q:	Are the other Operating Systems "Bad"?
A:	Not At All! Some OSes exceed in ease of use, others run a horde of applications, some run in a dozen of CPUs, some are more stable and others give you full control of your system resources. There is no shame of using an OS, provided that it is PUCHASED if it's not free. Same for Applications. A company makes an investment by developing a software and expects to be payed back, just as a company that sold you a hardware device (graphics card, refrigerator etc.) and the effort is the same - Try to run your Super Cpu without an Operating System. If you like to take a "shortcut", then be part of a Free Software or Open Source Community and help others, too. Free and Open projects exist because their creators wanted them to be so. We must not support piracy. If we do, we do not just take what is not ours, we also forfeit our right to demand better software.
Q:	Why did you love Linux?
A:	Because of the new ways it showed me for using and interconnecting computers, old as well as new ones. All worked, I didn't "retire" anything.
Q:	What can Linux teach a non Linux user?
A:	Linux and the *BSDs showed to all how can a project flourish through network (net work) if people share ideas, always try to learn and love their object of work.
Q:	Which OS have you loved in the past?
A:	GEM for Atari. But we are talking about many years ago.
Q:	And in the present?
A:	Besides Linux and FreeBSD? Well, BeOS and Windows 2000. But for BeOS I will wait till a see an Open-Source version of it to test it again. Update August 2007: Operating Windows Vista @work (tech support, computer lessons etc.) I have to comment that it's a good OS. I already set up pages messing with special issues on Vista, as well as screenshots.
Q:	And which Licence agreement?
A:	GNU-GPL! But this doesn't mean that we have to be fanatic. If something is good/bad we have to share our opinion about it despite of licence issues.
Q:	Which GNU/Linux Distro is your favorite?
A:	Slackware Linux! Patrick Volkerding's Distro is small, compact, fun to use and stable, although very manual. Using this distro, I learn very much on a hoard of issues.!
Q:	I have seen some things that I KNOW they are wrong (I am one of the gurus). Please make a site only when you EXACTLY know what you are doing!
A:	Being a music teacher and performer, it's obvious that I am constantly exposed to the public eye. If you think that an opinion on computers in a site is "exposing" then make a sculpture in your frontyard and THEN tell me about exposure. If you know better, tell me so to correct. If you don't want to, then just watch the site get better.