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samer

Admin

Starting with Linux

Hey evb, I'm interested to start using Linux
I have got some questions about it:

What distro to choose ?
Best way to learn linux ? (recommended books, articles, tutorials)
..........

It would be great if somebody here could write an article about the above questions and some other useful info

thanks :)

Ragnar78

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

Start with Knoppix...

And you have every single thing you need on the net to start...
Actually, the only way ti understand linux (other than the GUI interface) is to practice...start as in dos...delete files, create files, mount drives, install apps,...

Then go to Suse distro to understand KDE and Gnome (prettiest interface i saw for the 2)...

Then get Debian...the most perfect distro of all...(in my opinion)

l33thium

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

as ragnar said sue is great for kde but the best is Slackware or redhat but it would be hard to use them if it's you're first time on linux

Unforgiven ... do u get any credit for telling ppl to use windows or making any add for microsoft :)

Charly

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

few links :
http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/toc.html

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linu … ted-guide/

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

cyber_lady

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

or i could give u the poly our teacher gave us at uni...it's very helpfull and kind of a step by step...

samer

Admin

Re: Starting with Linux

that would be great :) ..

mezin

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

Unforgiven ... do u get any credit for telling ppl to use windows or making any add for microsoft :)

i remember saying that, well windows is actually the most user friendly OS (fact) but now linux has arousen my interest .. but my opinion holds

Parabola

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

I downloaded coLinux yesterday and while installing it I choosed the option to download Debian... I Installed it and now I am starting learning it...

Ragnar78

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

I managed to install Gentoo distro...it's quiet cool. The only problem is i didn't know how to configure grub to set Genkernel as a kernel to boot from, i only set the normal kernel...its a good distro and you do everything from the start, from partitioning to archive extrating and emerging system, to grub or lilo config....

I bought myself a small O'Reilly "livre de poche" that holds alot of major commands for the terminal...
I hope i'll improve fast enough, cause i want to migrate completly from MS to Linux. Now france has been editing new laws against piracy and if i get cought with pirated stuff its gonna hurt (knowing thar 99% of my apps are piracy)

mezin

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

can any1 help i got a double DVD SUSE linux pro v. 9.1 .. what is that ? can i start from it ?

karim soubra

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

i saw the latest mandrake in my cd shop
it looks inttresting

rolf

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

I like Fedora linux (that's the new name for the free redhat linux - redhat has now become commercial).
I think it's one of the most well-known distros.
It usually works fine out of the box

farrooda

Member

Re: Starting with Linux

yes guys I use fedora core 3 and its quite cool.
They have released fedora core 4 but I haven tested it yet.