new to linux

[Jim Herrmann]

Gentoo?  Dude!  He's wanting to learn about linux, like as a beginner to 
linux, not a freaking guru.  He said he's a windows person, not a unix 
sysadmin.  Jason, you need to get a copy of Mandrake 9.1, Red Hat 9.0, 
or Suse 8.1 (8.2 may be out?).  I recommend Mandrake, as that is what I 
use and I think it is the best desktop disto, but they each have their 
pros and cons.  Since you can get them all for free, you can try them 
all out, and see what works best for you.  They all have excellent 
installers and beautiful desktops.  I recommend that you start with KDE 
for your desktop, as it will seem the most familiar to you coming from 
windoze.

The main thing you will need to do is read your brains out.  You have a 
large learning curve ahead of you, but I think you will find it well 
worth the effort.

As you get more familiar with linux, you might even move on to, yes, 
dare I say it, Gentoo.  ;-)

Good luck, and all the help you need is right here on this list.

Peace,
Jim Herrmann

Jacob Hurley wrote:

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> **Jacob Hurley**
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> **Network**** ****Operations**** ****Center**
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> **Alexander Open Systems**
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* jason [mailto:jaysongoldman at hotmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:10 PM
> *To:* kclug at kclug.org
> *Subject:* new to linux
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> I have been a windows person and technician for years and would like 
> some advice as to where to go to get started on the track to learning 
> about linux.  I have built a new system and am ready to put an os on 
> it, but not sure where to start.  Thanks
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