[lug] New to the group

[Glenn English]

On Aug 17, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Maxwell Spangler wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 14:57 -0700, Jason Barnes wrote:

>> If anyone has any suggestions on a good place to learn more about Linux and how to use it better I am open to suggestions.
> 
> The best thing to do is get a (presumably) second computer, put Linux on it and FORCE yourself to use it as much as possible.
> 
> If you do so, and ask concisely and clearly on lists like this you'll often be rewarded with an overwhelming amount of ideas and opinions to help you.

And there's always Evi and her bud's book on *nix:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131480057?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwadmincom&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0131480057 

And O'Reilly's got some good explanations and suggestions. I second the second computer suggestion -- on a 'toy' computer, you can make mistakes on a server that'd take down a network, then just re-install from backup, and you're on the air again...

Since you're going into computer security, it might be a good idea to just cut the Windows umbilical completely -- the 'Net was and is largely *nix based, and Linux is a much better sport (than OS X, too) about futzing with things and writing new software. My experience, anyway.

Far be it from me to start a flame war, but DebianStable is a reasonable distro. It's fairly simple to get going, it works good, and Debian has a good attitude (wonderful packaging system; and serious about OSS, but they keep some non-free stuff in their mirrors too).

You've made a good choice, looking into Linux; it's a better platform for getting bits under your fingernails (my dentist and cardiologist couldn't exist without Windows XP, though). You'll be an ever so much happier computer geek :-)

-- 
Glenn English
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