my new adventure with linux...

[AznMaverick]

i just got a celeron 500 donated to me and i thought it would be a perfect machine for me to pratice how to use linux with. i will start off with linux red hat 9.0 (i know absolutely nothing about linux)...any pointers, suggestions, helpful hints y'all would like to donate?

 

[Syringer]

a) Post it in the correct forum.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Use google and be willing to read alot.

 

[Platypus]

Don't expect it to be like windows, and don't get frustrated when it isn't. Also, read everything about the programs you want to run via the man pages.

 

[silverpig]

Um... ReiserFS > ext3

 

[JetBlack69]

good place to start, forums there are good

 

[FoolishMcNasty]

these are very helpful sites:
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link #3

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Um... ReiserFS > ext3

Ask Alan Cox about that one

 

[Willoughbyva]

After trying Readhat, try Mandrake.

If you need help do google group searches and post to usenet groups. There is a ton of info on linux out there. The only thing is that the documentation might not work exactly with the current release of whatever program. Go to a bookstore and look for older cheaper books. Get familiar with Bash.

The OS forum also here is a good place to get help.

Have fun.

 

[Colt45]

try some of the more lightweight window managers for fun. BlackBox is a pretty cool one, im sure there are others (i havent done anything linuxish in a while).

If you dont have too much ram stay away from KDE and gnome, if you can..

 

[numark]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Um... ReiserFS > ext3

Until you're one of those lucky people who happen to get their filesystem corrupted due to problems with ReiserFS.

I say, don't mess too much with a good thing. With ext3, you can lose the journaling and still have a valid filesystem. If you have problems with journaling on other filesystems, you have a bigger problem.

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: numark

Originally posted by: silverpig
Um... ReiserFS > ext3

Until you're one of those lucky people who happen to get their filesystem corrupted due to problems with ReiserFS.

I say, don't mess too much with a good thing. With ext3, you can lose the journaling and still have a valid filesystem. If you have problems with journaling on other filesystems, you have a bigger problem.

I would have to agree

 

[yoda291]

when you finish with red hat...try a bsd.

 

[dabuddha]

try http://www.linuxhelp.net
I got alot of information from there

 

[Winchester]

This site did everything I needed when I started.

Linux Newbie

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
After trying Readhat, try Mandrake.

Why?

 

[xirtam]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
After trying Readhat, try Mandrake.

Why?

And what's Readhat?

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: xirtam

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
After trying Readhat, try Mandrake.

Why?

And what's Readhat?

A hat that says "press"?

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Um... ReiserFS > ext3

Not

I've lost a filesystem due to an issue that the Hans swore didn't exist, but put out a patch for a few weeks later. (this is probably the bit that CorpRec was referring to Alan Cox about ... Alan had some strong words about ReiserFS about that one.)

 

[brtspears2]

Word of advice ... start with the command.... man man.

That should get you going.

 

[polm]

My suggestions...go with Debian.

 

ReiserFS > ext3

Not for me.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: AznMaverick
i just got a celeron 500 donated to me and i thought it would be a perfect machine for me to pratice how to use linux with. i will start off with linux red hat 9.0 (i know absolutely nothing about linux)...any pointers, suggestions, helpful hints y'all would like to donate?

I just got Mandrake 9.1 installed on my p300 SS7 system (128 megs of ram) working as my webserver and ftp server. The learning curve with linux is steep but it is fun and accomplishing something like this gives you a sense of pride.

 

[Maetryx]

The coolest thing I did with linux is make a router. I used an old P100 with two network cards. I used the command IPTABLES a lot.

[internet]--{[eth0 card]--[P100 machine]--[eth1 card]}--[uplink port on 8-port hub]--[three other computers]

The eth0 and eth1 cards were the network cards in the P100. Anyway, I would have to learn it all over again to do it now. The linux box let me share a broadband connection with three computers. Now that feature is built into Windows XP, or in a $80 broadband router.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Maetryx
The coolest thing I did with linux is make a router. I used an old P100 with two network cards. I used the command IPTABLES a lot.

[internet]--{[eth0 card]--[P100 machine]--[eth1 card]}--[uplink port on 8-port hub]--[three other computers]

The eth0 and eth1 cards were the network cards in the P100. Anyway, I would have to learn it all over again to do it now. The linux box let me share a broadband connection with three computers. Now that feature is built into Windows XP, or in a $80 broadband router.

Or Freesco.

Or my install of mandrake had an option to install it as a router/firewall.