Linux: dummies wanted!

Nearly twenty years after its creation, Linux still has an image problem. It is seen as being powerful but complex, a technical, difficult, engine that needs to be hidden away from sight, like a nuclear reactor buried behind shields of lead and concrete. Where does this fear come from? A lot of it comes from Linux users themselves. Linux users are too damn smart! They tweak, they fiddle, they write complicated blocks of code, and they correspond in esoteric formula about ‘kernels’ and ‘bins’. Linux badly needs some dummies: ordinary people who just want to get things done. With Linux, teachers, students and citizens have a unique opportunity to take command and lay down their own ground rules for what they want to do and how they want to do it; and the time to seize that opportunity is now.

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