Familiar with linux?

[cheeseburger]

I need to know some basics, i'm quick to learn!!

got a few hours? i've got soem beer, lets do it up

[stringbeans]

linux is

F
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FUN

[ebbomega]

Okay. Start brushing up on your commandline skills, they're useful.

Mandrake's a decent intro distro I find, but be sure to, once you get comfortable with it, switch over to red hat at some point.

Another thing you may want to note is decent replacement software:

KDE/GNOME instead of Windows (for Window Manager)
bash instead of DOS (for commandline)
Mozilla instead of IE
Evolution instead of Outlook
There's a couple decent text editors, but I really recommend learning a good commandline one (vi or emacs) as it will make life easier.
GnomeICU or LICQ for ICQ. Also available are GAIM, Everybuddy, and a couple others I dunno about.

I could go on for a few hours actually to teach you, but I don't have a few hours at the moment. And I really don't feel like it. But I might in the near future.

[Tux]

ya start with mandrake, its prolly the most user friendly distro out there right now, and setup is faster and just as easy as windows... but i dont recommend switching to redhat. redhat is crap. If you want a more hands on advanced distro go with slackware. but ya you dont really need to know much to be able to use linux, especially if you choose an easy distro like mandrake where all the configuration tools have a GUI front end you can use instead of command line.

There's a couple decent text editors, but I really recommend learning a good commandline one (vi or emacs) as it will make life easier.

there are lots of GOOD GUI based text editors for linux... my fav. is kate which is much like notepad but has extra highlight features for programming, and OpenOffice is really good, which is the equivelent to word, except better. Theres also Koffice which is also like word, but not as good as openoffice. honestly unless your gonna be programming in C/C++ or something like that theres no reason not to use a GUI text editor. anyhow if ya need help on anything specific post it or pm me or something ive been using linux for close to 7 years.

[miss.myra]

I know Linux and I like b33r

Maybe once you move out of the boonies I can show you a thing or two.

wDDT.

[cheeseburger]

ok

so..

what kinda beer?

[stringbeans]

my last year at bcit was done in the linux option so im pretty familiar with it too ken, if you need any help with it

[meth0dical]

i have slackware, mandrake, and redhat if you want one, and i'd hafta say slack is the best of the 3

[rawb]

IM JUST POSTING HERE SO PEOPLE KNOW I AM ALSO DOWN WITH LINUX

LIKE THE OTHER PEOPLE IM NOT GOING TO HELP YOU

THAT IS ALL

[cheeseburger]

haha

[ebbomega]

Originally posted by Tux
ya start with mandrake, its prolly the most user friendly distro out there right now, and setup is faster and just as easy as windows... but i dont recommend switching to redhat. redhat is crap. If you want a more hands on advanced distro go with slackware. but ya you dont really need to know much to be able to use linux, especially if you choose an easy distro like mandrake where all the configuration tools have a GUI front end you can use instead of command line.


there are lots of GOOD GUI based text editors for linux... my fav. is kate which is much like notepad but has extra highlight features for programming, and OpenOffice is really good, which is the equivelent to word, except better. Theres also Koffice which is also like word, but not as good as openoffice. honestly unless your gonna be programming in C/C++ or something like that theres no reason not to use a GUI text editor. anyhow if ya need help on anything specific post it or pm me or something ive been using linux for close to 7 years.

I'm not suggesting Red Hat as a decent "advanced" distro. If you want advanced (WARNING: DISTRO HOLY WAR!) go for Debian. I'm sorry. But Package management in my opnion is a GOOD idea, and apt is fucking slick. I like the fact that I can install any program I want by apt-get install progname

Red Hat I recommend so that you don't get too envelopped in Mandrake, because as I said, Mandrake uses its own library names and makes it a BITCH to install any packages that aren't in Mandrake's limited stable tree. No apt-rpm, no ogle, no nothing. Red Hat is a lot nicer because they leave the library names as is and it's relatively easy to put stuff like new wine builds or ogle or apt.

If you do decide to go with Red Hat, I'll just say check out freshrpms.net, as they have a bunch of programs you'd probably be really happy to get ahold of (I recommend: apt-rpm, synaptic, xine, mplayer, ogle, xmms-mp3 as Red Hat breaks xmms into not working until you get this plugin)

Mandrake is a good learning distro. Red Hat is a good easy-to-maintain distro. Debian is a good advanced distro. Slack... again... I like having package management. It makes life simpler.

And I still haven't yet tried building Linux from scratch, but rest assured, it's not far down the list.