According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
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> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
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> > According to Deirdre Saoirse: While burning my CPU.
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> > Actualy if i may say so without showing any disrespect, 90% of questions
> > would be answered IF the asker read the flipping manuals, as per RTFM.
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> Yes, but WHICH manual? That's a question that often frustrates a newbie. I
> can't blame someone for not knowing what something is called (like IP
> masquerading) and then asking about it.
That question is quite easy to find an answer to, in ALL linux distro's,
there is a complete directory absolutly full of documentation files, namely
/usr/doc, there is further more the "info" system (when installed) and then
the man pages, aside all that there are normaly README files in archives
like the one you picked as an example.
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> > Actual i have installed SuSe Redhat Debian and slackware, i must admit i'm
> > not a newbie BUT if you wanna learn LINUX learn "slackware".
> >
> > I can agree with most comments on use this or that, "because" it has a nice
> > windows style installer etc etc.. But i still stick and say to a new commer
> > to the wonderfull world of linux, Use slackware, you will learn much more
> > about your system and HOW it works than you ever will with all the rpm's and
> > zuf's whatever they maybe..
>
> Right -- IF you can manage the learning curve. A great many people can't.
> If I had been thrown cold into a slack system, I probably wouldn't be
> using Linux today.
Well i can only say, when a friend talked me into "me" letting "him" install
a operating system i had never even heard of, on my DOS computer (which BTW i
had only been using for a few months), due to me being, "just a simple truck
driver" never at home and not having anytime to learn about computers at the
ripe old age of 42 (at that time) who could not even type properly then,
then i say use slackware and let it teach you WITHOUT the GUI tools that
everyone wants to click there mouse on thses days.
I am happy to say, i am now NOT a truck driver anymore, i have now found
employment as a systems superviser in a amusaments hall, where i also repiar
the machines as well nota bene, i decided to learn electronics as well at
the ripe old age of 42, so please just relaise, if i can do that then
"anyone can". My advantage is, i saw all of Europe and most of the Middle
East when i was driving my 18 wheeler around.
Now why do i tell you my life's history, realy because i was kicked out of
school for the simple reason, "They thought i was not capable of learning",
i would LOVE to meet my old head teacher after all these years, just to rub
under his nose what i am now capable of.
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> > I have been using Redhat for the past year, i have got so fed up with how
> > Redhat likes to do things for you the way redhat wants, its getting TOO much
> > like widows.
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> I don't mind being coddled as long as I have an option. I now mostly do
> some stuff by hand because I had to figure out how to set up my ipmasq
> rules by hand once.
Well if you were to have had more experiance in slackware, the chances are,
your problem would not have been so big as it was.
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> _Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
> Q: Where do you want to go today? A: The 9th Floor
Ops that "A:" could that not be;
I should be on daddys "Slackware computer".
Huum, just my humor.
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Regards Richard.
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