I strongly agree with Gavin. Sounds like you have had a good start anyway. Not many people have come me saying "I have just installed (whatever) Linux on my machine and it feels great", a lot of people have said, "I tried to get Linux working on my machine, but I couldn't get it to work...", and a lot of those people were IT professionals - they have got sucked in too deep into the dark side. Yep, there is a steep learning curve ahead, but it's really worth it. Open Source Software has done a lot for me than any variant of MS Windows will ever do. I'm not anti-Microsoft - but the more you get into Linux, the more you realise why other people think Windows Sux, furthermore you are siding them with those views.
-----Original Message----- From: Gavin Denby [mailto:redhat(a)ihug.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 08:30 To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [wlug] Any Hints or Advice?
If you an get into Hamilton on a Monday night, (Sadly I cant ) get along to the lug meetings.
At the beginning a lot goes over your head, just let it go, meeting the people and the tips you pick up by watching them will make your life easier, you will learn a lot, and you will build good friendships and strong networks. Linux is more community than OS IMHO ..... And the OS really rocks.
Mandrake is good place to start in Linux, but most of the local lug use Fedora, Although there are a lot of die hard debian fans too. I'm on a slackware derivative nowadays, but we all learn from each other and help each other.
Also Google is a very good search engine for linux users.
David7 wrote:
Hello
I have just gone over, or come over, to Unix - Mandrake 10.0 they call it. It feels great. Are there any hints or advice for a new guy?
David C in Huntly, NZ, amateur Pascal progger, digest member.
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