At 01:26 AM 5/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
>How long does it take to get used to Redhat Linux? ;}
I am still learning it *g* . It's not the same as my FreeBSD but..
>
>It's really strange... I have spent the past week brushing up on
>re-learning Unix, have written a few CGI Perl programs. It is just that
>going from Win95/NT and Mac's which hide most of the nitty gritty from
>me... and then there is Linux. ;}
Linux actually hides stuff still. It has lots of GUI's to help
you do things, FreeBSD is all command line stuff.
>Nothing is hidden. Reading the man pages causes my brain to sizzle then
>melt out my ear. And trying to do something "simple" like hook up to my ISP
>has stumped me in the past week, since there seems to be Perl's "Tim-Toady"
>mantra of "There is more than one way to do it" all throughout the whole
>OS. I find it wildly amusing! ;} Tried reading 4 different ways to hook up
>to my ISP, using 4 different HOW-TO's, mini-Howtos, and even 3 different
>versions of X-ISP. Heh. ;}
Thats the great thing about UNIX. You could make a solution to a
problem in C, C++, Perl, AWK, Sed, sh, or tcsh and they would all be right !
>I am just sitting here, realizing how, just a week ago, I thought "I know
>how to install programs!" ... with Win95 or NT, where it meant simply
>running the setup program, and pressing a few buttons. Did I know what goes
>where? Nope... Might as well said "Elves" when asked "But how does it
>work?"
>
>I do love the fact that I can simply use Emacs and try to gaze
>absent-mindedly at code and pretend I actually understand it.
You will in time. Just don't try to learn X-Windows yet *g*
>
>Now, for some strange reason, Linux no longer can "see" my CD-Rom drive...
>even after a reformatting and re-installation, it still doesn't let me
>"mount" the CD-Rom and access the files... Hrm...
Well.. What type of CD is it ? EIDE or SCSI ? When you
installed it, didn't it find the CD ?
Also, are you trying to mount the drive as something other than
root ? I believe that it is installed such that you must be root
to mount the CD ROM.
>Er... does anyone know of any web pages that gears Linux information to
>Newbies?
You can try http://www.linux.org/ They seem to have links for
how to's and etc.
Matt Soffen
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