Re: [LINUX_Newbies] How to learn Linux

On 02/25/2016 12:59 PM, HalX halinux@frontier.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:54:16AM -0600, Michael Sullivan
> msulli1355@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
> ............
> > need a hand-up. Can anyone recommend a (free) website or book series to
> > help me reach my goal: not to be a noob anymore?
> > -Michael Sullivan-
>
> I'll go out on a limb to recommend, at your point in time, fetching the
> Slackware 14.1 iso file or purchase a DVD; installing it on a HD..

That's a good tip! I'll definitely consider that. Over the last year
or so, as systems fail, I've been thinking that Gentoo is NOT the right
distro for me. I like that everything is in text files; the reason I
left Windows is that if something goes wrong, to fix the problem you
reinstall Windows. I got really really tired of reinstalling Windows
every few months...
> The distribution DVD is loaded with help and once running much much more..
>
> I've been running Slackware for 20 years now and learn something new every
> day.. It's one of the few distributions that's really "Linux."
>
> --
>
> GNU-Linux/UNIX - Slackware 14.1 JFS X86
>
>
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> Posted by: HalX <halinux@frontier.com>
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