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?
We try hard to put any advice or hints into the wlug wiki. http://www.wlug.org.nz/ The wiki lets *ANYONE* edit (almost) any page. If you goto a page (eg: http://www.wlug.org.nz/SandBox ) you will see an "[Edit]" button at the bottom. If you click it you will be asked for your name in a special format, type it in, and then you can edit that page. Click around, there are literally *thousands* of pages in the wiki with all kinds of information. A lot of it is system administration related, or networking related, as most of the prolific editors have system admin/networking backgrounds, but there is a lot of desktop stuff there too. If you find some piece of information you found difficult to find, please please please put it somewhere in the wiki. Even if it's just a obtuse comment, with bad gramm{a,e}r or spellnig, someone else will come along and correct it, and pad it out to make more sense. Some interesting pages to start looking at might be: * http://www.wlug.org.nz/CategoryCategory * http://www.wlug.org.nz/RecentChanges * http://www.wlug.org.nz/NewToWiki * http://www.wlug.org.nz/WlugActivities If you have any questions, or comments you can wiki them too :) We have a lot of people watching the RecentChanges/RecentEdits pages like a hawk, if you post something it's quite possible that within an hour any page you edited would be updated by someone else too, which is how we deal with abuse (if someone deletes a page and replaces it with something silly, someone will just undo their changes)