New user and questions

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Madison Kelly wrote:

>   Redhat is a great place to start. I found it a nice balance between 
> ease of use and easy exposure to the guts underneath. Others here -DO- 
> have their own opinions on their distro of choice, so be careful when 
> asking opinions of distros!! Personally now, I run Fedora Core 1 which 
> is a community project extension of Redhat 9, run by Redhat. If you 
> need/want a copy and can get downtown, I would be happy to burn you a 
> copy if you can pick it up near Adelaid and Yonge (1blk N or King).
>
>   After two years, I would, with absolute honesty, leave computers 
> before going back to MS. Obviously then, I felt getting through the 
> learning curve was worth it! Again, the trick is to -only- run Linux 
> at home for a while. If you have MS there, you will often just boot it 
> and use it out of familiarity. Then, once all your files and setting 
> are up then you won't boot Linux because, well, you can't really work 
> on it because your files and setting (bookmarks, e-mail) aren't there. 
> Conversly, if you only have Linux then when you run into something you 
> don't know, you will always find it faster/easier to learn whatever 
> you need to in order to move on than it would be to re-install MS. The 
> net effect then is that you start learning the details of Linux daily 
> and then one day, like I did, I suddenly realised that I was more 
> comfortable (and -much- happier) in Linux than in MS.
>
>   Anywho, the $0.02 from a Linux convert and devotee! ;)
>
> Madison

Thank for you very much for the Fedora CD offer. I may take you up on 
that one day. I'm glad to hear someone else was in the same situation 
I'm currently in. It gives me hope! LOL. I completely DO want to dump M$ 
for Linux ASAP, but until I get an internet connection working in Linux, 
I'm stuck dual-booting to death!

Thanks for all the shell command tips! I was aware of some of those but 
not all. I've started getting into O'Reilly's Linux in a Nutshell, so as 
soon as I can spend more time in the Linux OS, I can really begin to 
learn stuff.

-Steve.
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