[sclug] re: crash course

[Neil Haughton]

Hi,

FWIW I use Mandrake 10. I read Linux Complete cover to cover, RedHat 
Linux Unleashed cover to cover, and dipped into several another tomes 
from time to time. I also worked my way through much of Mandrake's 
Campus on their website. After using Linux at home for nearly 2 years 
now I still have only a vague clue what to do when things go wrong :-). 
But stick at it, because it will all eventually become clear.

My only beef is trying to get applications that weren't expressly 
packaged for my disto installed and working, and issues like RealPlayer 
not working with Mozilla because they were compiled with different 
versions of gcc (apparently). This is still IMHO where Linux trails 
behind Windows. I'm really not too interested in spending summer 
evenings compiling things on my machine to get them to work together - I 
do enough of that at work for a living :-).

Funnily enough, my colleagues and I use the command line much of the 
time at work (and we are Windows developers!), probably far more than I 
do at home with Linux.

Neil Haughton

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