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From:
Heddle Weaver <weaver2world@gmail.com>
Date: 19 April 2011 10:33
Subject: Re: New to Linux
To: Steven Rosenberg <
stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com>
On 19 April 2011 09:58, Steven Rosenberg
<stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/15/2011 12:49 PM, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote:
FWIW: O'Reilly published a Special Edition book LEARNING DEBIAN
GNU/LINUX (c. 1999). It was a very good introduction and step-by-step
guide to installing and using Debian. I got it for free from the Debian
booth at Las Vegas COMDEX 1999. This was the first year Linux had a
major presence at COMDEX. Having the Linux people all in one exhibit
hall greatly simplified my investigations of making the switch from the
Amiga. I still have the book. However, ultimately, I chose Mandrake 7
as my first distro. Debian was not a distro for the noobie, either then
or now.
I wouldn't agree. I started with Debian being a complete noob and I
manage somehow.
I didn't actually start with Debian, but with a debian-based distro from Canada, called Libranet. Taught me everything I know about partitioning (cfdisc) and other installation tasks through an NCurses interface. Being forced to think doesn't hurt. When that folded, I moved straight to Debian. Still learning.
Regards,
Weaver.
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