Hope I'm not replying too late to be relevant. Responses inline: > - How long have you been using Linux, and what distribution do you > use? I've been using Ubuntu at home and at work for about 2 years. It started at work, either my current workstation was flaking out or my teams new workstations came in and I was fed up with dealing with Windows. Most of the sample code and tools I was using at the time came in Linux flavors. Also the entire server target for my app was Linux so I switched.
> - Are any of you active on a Linux forum of any type? FWLUG is the only Linux specific one. I also try to represent the *nix side of things over at mirthproject.org, a cross-platform medical interface engine. > - What are the most important things to learn in Linux once you feel > fairly comfortable with it. I had tinkered with Linux before, but what finally made it stick was not using it for the sake of using it, but using it to get things done. I needed to get online, check email, etc etc at home so I learned what I needed to do to make that happen. At work I needed to hack code, maintain servers, build servers, and integrate with the rest of the companies Windows machines so I learned how to do that. > - Could you give me some good links to a few tutorials? I'm wanting to > dig deeper into just about anything now that I have some more time. See my previous point. What do you currently use your computer for that you need to do under Linux? What apps are you using that aren't cross platform? Do you need to virtualize or dual boot? And so on.. Hope this helped. I look forward to meeting you at the next FW-LUG event! -- -- Jon Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
