[SWLUG] Re: Newbie alert!

[Dick Bain]

On 8/16/05, Glenn Booth <d.glenn.booth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On 8/16/05, steve at nexusuk.org <steve at nexusuk.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm afraid there is probably no such thing as "vendor neutral" when it
> > comes to learning Linux.  The best you can really do is dabble in a
> > variety of distributions.
> 
> Agreed, hence my use of the "". What I'm getting at is I'd like to learn
> it the way that is most likely to get a result on a wide variety of boxes
> (e.g. using VI or VIM instead of a GUI editor, hand tweaking /etc config
> files rather than using some weird GUI tool that asks the wrong questions
> and makes no effort to inform you what has been done and then doesn't
> do what it should etc etc).
> 
> > Wipe windows and then you'll have to learn how to do everything under
> > Linux :)
> 
> Sadly not an option at the moment, but I'm working on it. I'm fortunate
> enough to have a bunch of machines, and right now  I find that I'm
> spending more time at the Linux machine than the others, so I'm
> getting there.
I have found that for more than a couple of years now there isn't much
that I do on windows apart from the laptop with a wireless card,
ndiswrapper doesn't work, but every other function I find is done
better and more reliably under Linux.
I farted around with oldish hardware installing various other distros
while having a working version of Mandrake as the main platform. Since
having broadband I have used smoothwall express as a router and I have
installed Debian, sarge then testing, and use it all of the time. I
have upgraded the kernel and got my nvidia stuff working fine.
 But when it comes to any of the other stuff I can sometimes get most
of the stuff working in a half-arsed way ;-)
I use a GUI as a preference and I don't write much of anything but
html, not even that using Wordpress.
I'm now rambling so I will stop with a vote in favour of learning
about apache and bind etc
hwl
Dick
ps I still think two channels is pants

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