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I have found a subscription to linux format to be most helpful!<br>
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they are currently running a tutorial series on using emacs. quite
good since up till now I have been firing up nano for my console text
editing.<br>
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Glenn Booth wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
On 8/16/05, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:steve@nexusuk.org">steve@nexusuk.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:steve@nexusuk.org"><steve@nexusuk.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I think I'm in a similar position, having used Linux from before the time
of the modern GUI configurators for everything - modern distributions are
just so easy (although most of the time I still hack configs by hand
rather than using the GUI tools).
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Ditto - for me, the GUI config tools never seem to quite get the job done. I
decided to build a music server after buying a Squeezebox, and I
had a copy of Mandrake 10.1 lying around, so I used it. Trying to
configure Samba using the Drake setup was a joke. Same for (of
all things) the mouse in X. I ended up having to do lots of reading,
and editing smb.conf by hand (that's a good thing, BTW). I'm still
having problems with the file permissions though.
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<pre wrap="">I think using Linux _with other people around to answer questions_ is the
key to learning it.
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Bingo! The main reason I keep building Linux machines then unbuilding
them again is that I keep finding little niggles that just won't go away.
After a bunch of howto's and google searches, I get despondant. My
latest is a mouse driver that has to be reloaded every time I restart
Xorg. Google is full of posts from people with fixes, but they don't
work for me, and I can't work out why!
Fortunately, I seem to have found a LUG with people who know what
they're doing, so maybe there's hope... if I ask nicely.
Regards,
Glenn.
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