That was probably my favorite box I built back in the day. Had so much fun setting it all up. Stage1 on an athlon xp 2500+, 512 ram. Optimization was always great. Could run GUI + gAIM, Firefox and only be using like 1/5th of the memory available.
Michael Gorman On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Trevor Benedict <mre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Want to learn a lot about Linux in general, run unstable Gentoo for a few > years as your desktop, guaranteed to learn a lot. > But even Gentoo has become somewhat easy to manage, not like how it was > back in 2004 ;) > -- Trevor > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Mark Holmquist <marktrac...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > What skills do I need to be a good admin? >> > ... >> > Sent from my iPod >> >> Start by getting a decent email client. >> >> Learn to run the command line. Artfully. Don't force yourself to use it >> for everything, there are legitimate uses of the GUI, but the command line >> should be your friend. >> >> Know how to program, or at least script--look up some tutorials on BASH >> scripting/Perl/Python. Even C programs can be useful every once in a while. >> >> If you're serious about being deft at setting up and administrating >> servers, why not practice a lot? Buy some server time on EC2 or something, >> then spend a few hours setting up and tearing down test servers. Or use your >> neighbor's garbage PCs. Either way. >> >> If you want any help with Python or BASH, I'm here (off-list) for you. >> Hope to hear from you! >> >> -- >> Mark Holmquist >> Student, Computer Science >> University of Redlands >> marktrac...@gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> LinuxUsers@socallinux.org >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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