[SWLUG] Re: Newbie alert!

[Kris Zani]

I have found a subscription to linux format to be most helpful!

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.



Glenn Booth wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On 8/16/05, steve at nexusuk.org <steve at nexusuk.org> wrote:
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>>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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>>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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