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[_] what linux os should i use?

Darren Beale bealers at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 09:05:38 BST 2008

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Steve Roome <steve at pepcross.com> wrote:

>  On the other hand if you want to just be another numpty claiming to be
>  good with "Linux" (never met one that was!) and are prepared to waste
>  countless hours learning GUI's and checkboxes for configuring things
>  that will be different (or just differently transparent/crashy/themed)
>  next release/OS then sure, but it's not a very useful learning
>  experience that way.

Steve, I wonder what your definition of good is then? I presume this
is this the same as the senior-web-developer-but-not argument?

It's a serious question BTW, my intention wasn't to troll.

>  You won't think that I was being helpful in the first few hours of
>  getting to grips with basic Unix and what is and is not provided by
>  it, but you will later. Trust me on this!

I learnt shed loads by building a few different LFS system (before
they had the other versions that are now all scripted for you). I'd
highly recommend it as a starting point to learn from the ground up:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

db

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