I have followed essentially the same approach. I had zero experience with Unix up to this point--only Windows95. I went to the bookstore and snatched up four or five books on Unix and Linux. This was in March. I now have two computers running Linux, one of them a DEC Alpha, with SuSE and Redhat, and the latest kernels. Last month I figured out how to network them together, setting up a nameserver, etc. Next, I want to set up a raid array... My point, if I have one, is that this stuff isn't impossible. Difficult at times, sometimes maddening, but usually with a little help you can get it done. You can't accomplish anything by whining about how obscure Linux is, and "why can't it be like M$," and "how come some of them words are in German," etc. You have to make an honest effort--but if you fail, somone will usually help you. I also would like to say God Bless the LDP. N.B. I'm using Netscape 4.04 to read my mail--until I get IP marquerading and Postillion set up--and it seems like when I reply to a newsgroup, it fires off a copy of the message to the original poster. There is no indication of this behaviour in the "To:" field. So, if one of you gets a personal email in addition to the newsgroup post, please let me know so I can try to debug it. Adios, Robb. Michael Lankton wrote:
I started using linux before I started using OSF1 at school, so linux was my first unix. I found it very frustrating at first, to the point of getting pissed, and I found that the questions I posed on irc weren't getting answered in a way that I could understand, and I just couldn't follow the documentation sometimes. I think this goaded me into a "by God, I'm gonna get this if it kills me" mentality. I uninstalled linux, went to Barnes and Noble, bought "Running Linux" and "Linux in a Nutshell" (both of which are available through SuSE btw). I sat down and read Running Linux from cover to cover, reinstalled linux, and parked Linux in a Nutshell on my desktop. After that, I had infinitely fewer questions, and the ones I did have were easily answered on irc because I was now able to communicate exactly what my problem was, as well as having better knowledge of my system. RTFM is applicable most of them time, but this list exists for those with knowledge to share it with those who need it, so rarely will you get rtfm as an answer on this list.
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