Hello - Looking for assistance..
William G. Grace
I am looking to start a Networking/Computer help forum Website. I have
the domain (Network-Assistant.com) and I have what I believe is a
great little system installed, but now I need input.
What sort of info should I look to have posted?
In all honesty I am looking for help with making this site something
that people would want to visit and use.
Any ideas, please email me.
Thank you,
William
Ron
news:50abe308.03100...@posting.google.com...
> What sort of info should I look to have posted?
> In all honesty I am looking for help with making this site something
> that people would want to visit and use.
A very commendable goal William. What I have been looking for is a support
forum that will help me transition from Windows to Linux with as little pain as
possible. If anyone has any suggestions as to where I might find such a forum,
it would be greatly appreciated.
I have used many variants of Unix/Linux for many years during my job, but my
primary desktop OS has always been windows. I know my way around the Linux
command line pretty well, but have not mastered the Linux GUI (I normally use
KDE, but would be willing to use Gnome or any other if it would make things
easier for me to transition from Windows2000 to Linux). It's just the little
things that make life difficult for me. I can (and have) manually set the
dot-clock parameters for my display on older versions of Linux, and can add
devices into the Linux auto mount table (although the name of it escapes me at
the moment - I have to go hunt for it every time I need to add a device), but
just as there is a "Windows way" of doing things, I'm sure there must also be a
"Linux way" of doing similar things that doesn't involve fiddling with the
system files with a text editor.
Here's a simple example: Any time I open Windows file explorer, I can see my
floppy, zip disk, and CDROM drives as well as the file system on my hard
drives - yet the GUI file system explorer window in Linux doesn't show anything
above the Linux root "/". In order to look at the floppy, zip, or CDROMs, I
have to put them into the automount table, and figure out how to add a shortcut
to those devices on my Linux desktop (for some reason, the shortcuts go away
every time I reboot Linux, but that's another story).
Another thing that's essential for me is to be able to copy files back and fort
h from the Windows file system to and from the Linux file system (I have a dual
boot setup), but it's always a hassle to see the windows file system from
within Linux without resorting to the command line.
I guess what I'm saying is that what I think is desperately needed is a web
site or preferably a forum (where feedback is possible) that explains the
"Linux Way" of doing things, rather than going into in depth discussions of the
file system, how to install device drivers, etc.
Also, a recommendation for a good set of standard utilities would be very
welcome - and no, I do NOT consider either EMACS or VI to be viable text
editors. Even this little "NoteTab Light" that I'm writing this message in
makes Vi look like something from the stone age. I'm sure much better Linux
text editors (and other tools such as email, etc) are available, but how does
one go about finding them?
-- Ron
Martin Underwood
Hi there Ron,
I have to say, from my own relatively fresh experience with Linux, that
there is nothing you can't get a few hints about googling(tm) the WWW. As
for help in the groups, altho i haven't yet had a good look around yet,
there appears to be quite a large number of newsgroups associated with
Linux.
Personally, i had a basic knowledge of the command line (much the same as
yourself by the sounds of things) and no experience of the Pengiun itself.
I recently tried to get along with a number of distros, and found the
'College Linux' distro to be a really good bet. The current incarnation is
a little old but a new one is due anytime now. Either way i can strongly
recommend this distro since it comes with KOffice (an fully functioning
office suite) and a number of other very useful bits and bobs. So far the
only other thing i have downloaded is a couple of drivers, and the source
for the kernel.
This last thing is an interesting point. If you spend enuff time looking at
threads of topics on Linux, you will find people talking about 'compiling
the kernel'. There was actually no source code available to do this in
College Linux. But i think this was a ploy... there is a very good set of
basic instructions to compile your own kernel on the College Linux website,
and I have learnt more about this then I would have EVER done with
auto-wottsit-rpm-prepackaged malarky. Since then, i have a made myself a
very stable, and totally SWEET install of Linux, to my own personal
tastes... and once you have compiled a kernel a couple of times, compiling
your own packages that you get of the web, for extra programs, or drivers
or whatever is ezee-pezee/usr/src ;-)
Get in touch if you want any pointers...
Meth
Ron KA4INM Youvan
> This last thing is an interesting point. If you spend enuff time looking at
> threads of topics on Linux, you will find people talking about 'compiling
> the kernel'. There was actually no source code available to do this in
> College Linux. But i think this was a ploy... there is a very good set of
> basic instructions to compile your own kernel on the College Linux website,
> and I have learnt more about this then I would have EVER done with
> auto-wottsit-rpm-prepackaged malarky. Since then, i have a made myself a
> very stable, and totally SWEET install of Linux, to my own personal
> tastes... and once you have compiled a kernel a couple of times, compiling
> your own packages that you get of the web, for extra programs, or drivers
> or whatever is ezee-pezee/usr/src ;-)
Another Ron here:
There is no College kernel, all distros. use the same kernels, one of
the two the Alen or the Linus kernel.
See:
http://www.kernel.org/
and
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/
I got these by googleing "linux kerel"
Ron
Simon Wallis
above root /. I am a newbie but as I understand it root is just that,
the root. There is nothing higher. Anything "higher" like other drives,
hardware, the network or the internet are mounted below /. This is the
major characteristic of Linux which is a network centred OS. None of
that F://?? malarkey to access your own data.. Conversely if you are hot
desking Linux can mount your own files from the file server under
"home". I would want to say you are wrong. This is more about spatial
thinking.