[_] 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 -- Darren Beale 07711 716 197 http://bealers.com