[SWLUG] Starting with Linux

Bryn Reeves hagbard at nildram.co.uk
Wed Jan 19 01:11:04 UTC 2005


On 19:21 Tue 18 Jan     , Richard Smedley wrote:
> Another way would be to buy a turnkey solution, learn
> the filesystem, network tools, GRUB, what happens on
> boot-up, bash and/or zsh, Emacs, ftp, etc., etc., etc.
> Then perhaps do an install that really teaches like LFS.
> 

If he learns all that without breaking something, he's a 
better man than I ;)

100% agreed on the LFS one though... although I don't use
Gentoo anymore, their manual bootstrap taught me a thing or
two which I never learned using RH because it either 'just 
worked' or had a button to push..

Bryn.




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