Fedora

[stu]

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 at 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 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   > Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:36:35 -0700 (PDT)
>   > From: ec <eculbert at yahoo.com>
>   > To: Main PLUG discussion list
>   > <plug-discuss at 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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