On 8/4/2011 9:40 AM, AG wrote: > GNU/Linux - and the *BSDs - are great systems to learn computing on. > For the transition though I would strongly advise against using the new > system as your production system ... in the early stages of your > learning curve there is the real risk that you can trash your system > completely, so only install on a partition or a computer that you can > play around on until you can become more familiar and confident with the > system you are using. This is also why you will need to set up a root > a/c and a user a/c and only ever use the user a/c for working on the > system unless the system requires you to be root. In which case, try > safeguards such as using the shell command su or sudo to temporarily > grant root powers to the user. > > Otherwise, welcome to the world of GNU/Linux Debian and good luck. > > AG A great list of suggestions AG. A great alternative if you don't want to dual-boot or use a whole system is to use a Virtual Machine such as VirtualBox[1] [1]http://www.virtualbox.org -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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