On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:56:57PM -0600, Evan N. McNabb wrote: > > ALL OF THIS IS FOR FREE. Yeah, it will take some time, but you'll learn > a lot, and it will help you in your future career. What is going to make > you different from everyone you graduate with? > > This is why I use Linux. This is why I'm passionate. Not so much because > of "Linux", but because of what it allows me to do. >
I love your list, and I really do think that this is the right approach. With Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu, SuSe, and other great distros, I don't think newbies need much hand-holding anymore, and I'm not sure how useful the newbie meetings are. Case Study: Sco++ "We're Not Caldera Anymore" Robertson Sco++ started coming to UUG meetings sometime in the second half of 2003. He had almost no previous Linux experience. He came to all of the meetings, he tried stuff on his own (including things from Evan's list), and he made a point of associating with other experienced Linux users, even outside UUG meetings. A few months later the CS Department hired him as a sysadmin, and by now he might even know a thing or two that Byron doesn't know. :) I'm going to list a few things that I was introduced to at a user group meeting that I went off and tried: - MythTV - Asterisk - C#/Mono - Ruby - Netfilter / iptables - homemade salsa Things I was already familiar with, but learned a lot more about: - GPG - Vim - Mutt - Perl Regexes - Samba - LaTeX - Linux Kernel - Electronics Things that are on my list to try soon: - Xen There were numerous other meetings that were enjoyable and insightful even though I haven't directly applied them yet (like Video Conferencing), and there were a number of meetings that I couldn't make it to but wish I had (like FUSE, gdb, etc.) -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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