On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve...@gmail.com> wrote:
another thing about times changing - virtuals are great. download some > popular distros (don't limit yourself to linux either). i'd suggest > debian, fedora, centos, ubuntu, and freebsd. then get virtual box and > have fun. go, install, snapshot and then mess everything up. if you > can't figure out how to put it back together again, revert to the > snapshot. You'll need VMWare or VirtualBox (VBox is free but because it's not Oracle owned, it's licence might radically change without warning ... If you *really* want to make a project out of it, try Gentoo too, fair warning though, it can be time consuming.