A book you might find helpful in your studies:
Linux for Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant available from No Starch Press comes
with it's own Distro of Fedora, and is written all about using Fedora Core.
It is dated, but I found it very useful in learning about FC.
Stu
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 08:25, Lee Rhodes wrote:
> Thanks EC, I knew I couldn't use Knoppix and why but maybe with what little
> I've learned from it so far I can understand the course and Fedora better.
> I have an offer from someone fairly close to (from PLUG) to get copies
> from. I would love top go to one of these installs or any other kind of
> learning experience, but right now I'm also dealing with a very sick
> husband and it's hard to get away for that long.
>
> Lee
> lenella@gigonet.com
> "You're never to old to have a happy childhood"
> ~George Bernard Shaw
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ec
> To: plug
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 7:59 AM
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Fedora
>
>
> I don't know what/why the text was torn up, but here
> is a 'corrected' hopefully??? copy of my re:
>
> --- ec <eculbert@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:36:35 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: ec <eculbert@yahoo.com>
> > To: Main PLUG discussion list
> > <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Subject: Re: Fedora
> >
> > --- Lee Rhodes <lenelenellaogigonet> wrote:
> > > I'm a new member and I'm taking a beginners course
> > > in Linux. They require that I install Fedora next
> > > week and gave the site to go to download it. But
> > > they said if you have dial up (which I do that you
> > > could see about getting a hold of a user group to
> > > find out where I can it already burned on
> >
> > CDs
>
> I'm
>
> > > in Florence, AZ so Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe area would
> > > be where I would be willing to go to get it. I do
> > > have Knoppix I got to take a look at Linux.
> > > Many thanks!
> > > Lee>
>
> /////////////////
>
> Here is the homepage for the list and click on
> meetings, then scroll down to this saturday's (24th)
> installfest.
>
> I suggest your 'answer' would be to go and have help
> installing there.
>
> BACKUP ANY IMPORTANT INFO to cdroms or other places
> beside the hard drive before tinkering with the hd.
>
> http://plug.phoenix.az.us/
>
>
> The instructors of any class always want people to be
> 'on the same page' bookwise/os-wise. That is why they
> want you to use fedora (it is probably 'his' favorite
> flavor and he really doesn't know the others well
> enough to teach them correctly), which is downloadable
> from the internet.
>
> Besides, debian based Knoppix uses 'different' flavors
> of packages with different procedures and names for
> the packages (in many instances) than red hat based
> Fedora does. They both will do the job, but trying to
> figure out which 'Name' to use to do the job could end
> up being harder than the class isself!!! That is it in
> a nutshell.
>
> Cyclists should expect and demand safe
> accommodation on our public roads,
> just as does every other user.
>
> Nothing more is expected.
>
> Nothing less is acceptable!
>
> Long live Knoppix!!
>
>
>
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