[Cialug] new to this group, and Linux

[Theron Conrey]

IMO nothing beats a good lug for help.  All the rest of you lurkers... see don't be scared..... come on out....

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From: "sodders2005 at msn.com" <sodders2005 at msn.com>
To: <cialug at cialug.org>, <mike1371 at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 19:13:56 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
Subject: Re: [Cialug] new to this group, and Linux

Michael I  just started to get serious about learning Linux when I saw some
of the best things being driven by Linux.  



If looking for support I would start with Suse or Red Hat.

http://support.novell.com/linux/index.html



My first venture was with the Red Hat Linux 9 Bible.  With this detailed
book I was very surprised how much I could accomplish just taking it chapter
by chapter.

http://www.linux.org/books/ISBN_0764539388.html



I am new to the OS but here are a few places that have helped me a great
deal.



TUX - New Linux User Magazine [pdf]

Check out the month of June for a good article about MEPIS http://www.mepis
com/ . 





http://www.tuxmagazine.com/

https://www.ssc.com/tx/issues/GetDownloadTUX.php



Good reviews of different distros here:

http://www.extremetech.com/category2/0,1556,540430,00.asp





and my favorite place to visit

http://www.linux.org/



Good Luck !



 

-------Original Message-------

 

From: Michael; Central Iowa Linux Users Group

Date: 06/01/05 17:17:34

To: cialug at cialug.org

Subject: [Cialug] new to this group, and Linux

 

Hello everyone,

 

My name is Michael Davis -- I live in Urbandale and I'm new to this

list.  I'm on the digest version for now, but I joined this list at

the suggestion of a friend because I want to install Linux on one of

my home computers.

 

I was (a little bit) into programming on the Commodore 64 when I was a

kid in the 80s, and want to get back into programming again.  All the

reading I have done recently indicates that my first step is to be

working in Linux, so here I am.

 

I'm pretty clueless at this stage.  I'm thinking of buying Linux

instead of downloading it for free, because that way I'd get some

phone support while I figure out what I'm doing.  Any thoughts?

 

Michael

 

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http://www.townofautumn.com

 

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