Hello Keith, Friday, September 2, 2005, 5:04:38 PM, you wrote:
KC> Just recently, I have installed Linux onto a computer for an KC> "indepedent study" class. As I am doing this to get experience on KC> other operating systems (not windows), I have no idea on what I KC> should do on Linux. Is there a good place on where I can get started KC> learning about Linux? My strategy, was to first, do whatever it took to establish a simple dial-up connection, so I could surf the web, and send/receive email. Once this was accomplished, I began to wean myself of Windows a little at a time, by moving Internet-related stuff more and more, to the *nix box (I use Red Hat, but choosing a distro is very subjective), so that I could avoid as much as possible, having a target painted on my chest, which is what running Windows on-line is more or less like. I still needed to use Windows for a lot of off-line stuff, though, so my first method of moving data back and forth, was the dual-boot method... having Red Hat and Windows on the same box, with the operating systems in separate partitions, and the data on FAT32 partitions on a separate HD, where it could be read and written to by both OS's. Now, I have expanded this to a small network, With Windows, Red Hat, and FreeBSD all plugged into the same network (2 subnets, actually), with a Samba fileserver to share data between the OS's, and a printserver that presently works with Windows, but not yet *nix, as this is all still a true work in progress, with a lot of rough edges, where I am still figuring out what I am doing... or not. I played around with learning Linux at the 'study' level for a while, but I just didn't really make any progress until I force myself to use Linux in a production environment (my small business), where failure, and extended procrastination, were not viable options. -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
