WA Brown said the following:
And me. I live 4 hrs south of Raleigh. I would need some lead time to be able to go.
Here's your first homework assignment. http://www.lowfatlinux.com/ It's a pretty comprehensive collection of short tutorials. Seems pretty valuable for beginners. My comment to you (WA Brown) in particular... you might want to take a step back and make sure that you are not "doing things the hard way". You mentioned wanting to play MP3's on a newly installed Linux box, but then you dove into compiling mpg123 from source. This is definitely the "hard way" (unless, of course, your distro of choice is Gentoo). You might have better luck fishing around to see how others do it using your distro. For me, I tend to Google for strings like "Debian WinAMP" and I end up getting pointed to applications like "XMMS" (a really nice WinAMP clone). Lately, having joined the Ubuntu bandwagon, I spend a lot of time looking at the Ubuntu wiki. Just search for MP3 and they tell you how to install the appropriate packages (and thus avoid the pain of building them from source). There's a lot to be said for using the tools that your distribution has given you, even though you COULD grab a random tarball and compile it from scratch. It all depends on what level you're trying to learn on. If you want to USE a Linux system, then start with the packages that are made to work with your system! Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
