Linux Freshman.

harleluya · January 31st, 2004, 02:10 AM

Dear Senior,
I am just a linux freshman and I don't know much about mandrake and SuSE and others os as well. Could anyone of my senior tells me that where should I start? Please advice me...
Thanks
Sean

bcmaverik · February 2nd, 2004, 10:24 AM

http://www.tldp.org

try this link, they have some nice guides

harleluya · February 18th, 2004, 10:42 AM

Ask for more~!:D

nikolai · February 19th, 2004, 07:47 PM

http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com/search?&q=linux+tutorial

Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

knight · February 20th, 2004, 02:04 AM

i recommend RedHat Linux it is too good and robust platform i have tested it i found exellent

nikolai · February 20th, 2004, 03:52 PM

That's a good point, but many people also explicitly DON'T like Red Hat because it's RPM package install system sometimes gets a little tweaked. I've been in situations where I've tried to install things where the package dependency tree was complicated and wouldn't ever install properly. Alternatively, I was able to simply download the latest versions of all the things I knew I needed, and simply

./configure
make
make install

for each package and voila -- it all worked.

Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

knight · February 23rd, 2004, 12:49 AM

Yea Nik ur are absulotly correct at this point i know the problem of rpm package and its depnedencies but except that is is good distrbution isn't it?

nikolai · February 23rd, 2004, 08:35 PM

I think it's perfectly reasonable.

Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

codeman · February 24th, 2004, 12:07 PM

i agree that rpm dependencies can be a pain, but the benefit of the rpm system is that you can get yum, apt-get, or autorpm (or ...etc) to automatically update packages for you. this is great when the latest exploit comes out and your sendmail is automatically upgraded. You can also just force the rpm install... I guess the problem is that the rpm is pre-compiled, and expects certain versions of gcc, perl, pam, or a host of other programs to be installed of the same version number... mind you you can always get the source code for the rpm and just compile it yourself. I personally like using an rpm system for standard components (so they can be automatically updated, as I expect exploits for linux to be realized a little bit more in the next few years) and for special one-offs or special task programs I don't mind compiling or maybe adjusting the source code if need be.

harleluya · February 26th, 2004, 11:08 AM

Is RHCE import? who should take RHCE?
Thanks