[ale] Ignorant Newbie

[Charles Marcus]

Hi Julia,

In addition to the other excellent suggestions (get a book - read man pages
and how-to's), one thing I wholeheartedly suggest... do a few installations
of Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org).  It is time consuming (everything builds
from source), *especially* on an older computer, but well worth it in terms
of both learning experience *and* performance.

I learned more in 3 days of installing Gentoo than I did in 1 year of
playing when I had a chance.

Charles

> From: Julia Malvina [mailto:insileas at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 9:12 PM
>
> Hi,
> I was just wondering if there's a class somewhere
> that gives you an introduction to Linux.  I've
> installed it on an old computer but am not sure
> about some of the terminology and other basics.
> I feel like if I understood just a little more I
> might be able to move along faster.
> Anyway, hope I haven't bothered y'all.  I'll go
> back to lurking.
> Thanks very much for any suggestions,
>
> Juliea


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