Re: [PLUG] new to linux

[kuzman@sccs.swarthmore.edu (Kuzman Ganchev)]

Hi Andrew,

For me anyway (maybe not so much for other people), the leap is not as
much of a leap, but a journey. It's hard to start reading all the
documentation trying to learn everything - and really boring, as I
think you mentioned. The usual way to not get bored (again in my
experience) has been to start off with a short-term goal e.g. "get X
to run under ssh-agent so I don't have to type my password in every 5
minutes when I want to log in to a remote machine". A long-term goal
would be more like "learn how to administrate a unix system" (very
long term)

You mentioned a couple of things that you wanted to do: set up a web
server, and set up a network at home. 

The obvious question is do you have DSL running under linux (or
whatever flavor of BSD you use) at home? If not, have you tried the
instructions in the linuxdoc DSL howto? 

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/index.html

If you have done that, my suggestion would be to choose one thing you
want to do and take it one step at a time. 

Kuzman


On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 12:03:40PM -0500, Andrew Puschak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm andrew and have recently experimented with BSD and redhat. I work on a 
> local website http://www.sportsofsorts.com, go to cheltenham high school and 
> want to learn about hosting the website locally. I also want to have a 
> server for home to route my new directv dsl and host personal stuff. I've 
> read the manuals for bsd and linux and am a little bored and lost. I can't 
> seem to understand the leap from getting started to advanced networking. I 
> had bsd up and running and now I have linux up. Any pointers to some 
> websites to read or any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks a 
> million!
> 
> Sincerly,
> Andrew Puschak
> barberooza@hotmail.com
> 
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