On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 00:16, David Marsh wrote: > > Hi there, Hi David,
I've also just moved over to debian, although from a more gui orientated flavour of linux for similar reasons you describe for chosing debian. (And also apt) A life saver for me so far has been the #debian channel on irc.openprojects.net the reason being not so much the people in the room, although they are very very helpful, but a bot called apt. join #debian an /msg apt problem for example /msg apt xf4 for help regarding X servers. Apt will usually give you a tip, a rough description of what it is and where the relevent documentation in the above example apt politely tells you: xf4 is, like, XFree86 version 4.x (http://www.xfree86.org/), or packaged by Branden 'Overfiend' Robinson (http://people.debian.org/~branden). For XF4 for potato goto (http://people.debian.org/~cpbotha), or note that xf4 on potato is *not* considered stable if you dont know what to ask apt ask the channel and they usually point you in the right direction. There is also debian planet, which is full of articles about configuring things. i dont know if you are aware of www.linuxdoc.org but it contains oodles of howto's faq's and guides on almost everything linuxy which is very useful and as apt will tell you: howto is probably at http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto, or in package doc-linux-text, files end up in /usr/doc OR /usr/share/doc /HOWTO/en-txt/. This is where you _learn_ stuff, or http://howto.tucows.com/ There is also this list which will give you advice if you ask for it. Dont be afraid to ask a question even if it sounds silly. HTH David > > I've recently decided to give Linux a go after having used FreeBSD for > a few years. FreeBSD generally met my needs as a user, but it has to be > said that, well, there's Linux Format, but there's no BSD Format, and > there's little comparison between buying a mag with a coverdisk every > month, and spending *ages* hogging the phone line otherwise.. :-( > > I chose Debian as some other people I had spoken to had described it as > the most FreeBSD-like Linux distro in some ways. I prefer the idea of > being able to work things through 'from the ground up' in some ways, > and so I wasn't wanting an all-flashing-lights GUI-does-everything > distro which meant that I wouldn't (perhaps) learn so much. > > Anyway, while this message is evidence that I've got most of the core > parts of my system working without /too/ much trouble, there are a > couple of things I'm currently stumped with (namely, eeek, there's so > much documentation, and I just don't know what to read to solve my > immediate problems (and no, I don't have time to read it *all* right > now to find out), so if there are any other Debian users on the list, I > would appreciate the chance to ask a few "what do I read to tell me how > to do this.." kind of queries? > > > Regards, > > > David. > > > -- > David Marsh, Glasgow, Scotland. --+-+ | > |-> email,[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-> <http://www.viewport.co.uk/> | > +-> tel: +44 77-121-848-90 | | > >Trim quotes b4 replying; Quote 1st, reply 2nd; Ask b4 attaching files< > > Backlog/delay for email replies: approx 14 days. Plz phone if urgent < > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
