Re: Ex-newbie

[abbey <abbey abbeyink com>]

On Tue January 21 2003 4:36 pm, John Wilson wrote:
> What have I learned?  Linux documentation varies from superb to horse
> manure and those who prepared my book were working with completely
> different versions of the software from those included in the covers!

This makes me smile -- John, it's not RedHat per se, it's the fact that you're 
more experienced now after going through several install attempts.

I worked through an old RedHat -- nothing, zip, nada
Tried SuSE -- hah! not even close
Tried Debian -- grumble grumble and he was supposed to be my friend!?!
On a whim, I picked up a sale book, Red Hat Linux 7.2 Weekend Crash Course

oh, yeah -- almost windows-free now!

til I totally messed up and had to start over so, this time the Red Hat 8.0 
Bible was on sale. Love it, just love it. My Debian *friend* still gives me 
some grief, but RedHat just works -- o.k., most of the time it works. I even 
installed 8.0 on an ancient laptop -- no kde or gnome, but it works.

The only thing that's very annoying is the rpm process -- maybe I shouldn't 
mention this here, but http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/  has made my life easy. 
No more trying to go through an rpm install only to have it fail due to 
unsatisfied dependencies. apt-get gets the program and the dependencies. 8-)

Also in your pursuit to find the right Linux for you, try checking 
http://linuxnewbie.org 

Good luck, linux really is work, but it's so satisfying.