[lug] New to the group

[David L. Willson]

Ubuntu is probably the most friendly to the widest variety of users, manufacturers, and developers, but my favorite Linuxes to play with, right now, are Fedora, debian, Bodhi, and Zentyal. 

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This is a good time for a r3VOLution. 

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

> Thank you Maxwell, David, and Glenn,

> The information you gave me helped me know where to get started. I
> have a laptop that I do not use a whole lot so I would be able to
> put Linux on there to play around with and get to know.

> When it comes to the distro's of Linux I know Glenn suggested Debian
> as a good one but is it newbie friendly? Is there one that would be
> good for starting with, or is it one of those situations of
> preference?

> Also when it comes to learning a language would C# even be a good
> choice or should I stick with C++?

> Thank you all for your help it has really given me a great jumping
> off point.

> Sincerely
> Jason Barnes

> From: Glenn English <ghe at slsware.com>
> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List
> <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 1:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [lug] New to the group

> 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
> Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.

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