Introductions

If you really want to _learn_ linux, not just how to use it, but the
technical nitty-gritty --Go with Debian. If you want to simply use linux as
you would use windows then Mandrake is probably best.

There's no better way to learn than diving in. Sink or swim. I must have
re-installed Slackware 5,000 times when I first started learning linux.

Blake Barnet
Sr. Unix Administrator
DevelopOnline

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Russell [mailto:ron@siliconbuddha.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:43 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Introductions


Hello all. After my post to aztechlist I was referred over to here for
being a good place to learn Linux stuff.
I'm a Microsoft bigot and it looks like I'm turning to the dark side. <-
Please don't flame me that was a joke.

I'll be installing my first Linux OS this weekend and hopefully getting it
to dual boot with Win2k. I haven't decided on a distribution yet, but it
will probably be Redhat. I've been told that I should get the redhat Linux
bible that has the 7.0 distribution so I think I'll be buying that. Is the
Red Hat 7.0 distribution relatively current?

And I'll be getting the O'Riley "Running Linux" book as well (due to popular
opinion).

Ron Russell - MCSE, CCNA, CNE
480-6-Buddha
Silicon Buddha LLC
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