I think asking questions here is about the best way to learn what ever you don't know about computers and OSs, no question too dumb to be answered by more questions. I would stay right here, and if one day we disappear (heaven forbid) instead of debian or RH (they seem, to me anyway, to be not as tolerant of neophytes as we are here) consider yopa. it is a new distro for th desktop, and while I have not yet had a chance to check it out, it comes highly recomended by folks I have learned to trust. On this list, I think it was "YAMA", Sridhar Dhanapalani, that thought this was a good distro, and every other bit of advice he gave was right on the money.
On Sunday 26 January 2003 06:18 pm, Graham Pohle wrote: > After beating my head against a brick wall for quite some time now, I've > realised that I have to go back to basics to fully understand the > concepts and mechanics of the Computer and how the various Operating > Systems communicate with the hardware and then I might be able to learn > the various languages & programs that control the processes that I'm > trying to understand. > I've always been a person that wants the quick fix, I wanted to operate > this linux OS straight away, but it just doesn't happen like that. To > fully understand linux or any operating system for that matter, I > believe that you have to understand how the Computer in it's entirety > works. > I didn't even know that for any program to run, it first has to be in > the systems memory and I'm learning lots of new stuff every day. Some of > it is really boring, but I think I'm going to be better off in the long > run instead of trying to take the quick way or short cut around things. > If this is going to close down, I'll be around on some other linux > board,but by then I'll probably have a handle.(Maybe) > PS. Contemplating a move to debian...any comments?
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