New Linux user and several questions!

Chris Norman chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com
Fri Jul 8 22:11:28 UTC 2005


Here it is mate, just a help I pulled from my shell account LOL, nothing 
posh!

HTH,

Chris Norman.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Olesen" <brian at blindkom.dk>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: New Linux user and several questions!


> Hi chris,
> Oh please send that summery. I can't wait to read it.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> you can send it to:
> brian at blindkom.dk
>
> Best regards
> Brian
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Norman" <chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com>
> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: New Linux user and several questions!
>
>
>>I don't know if it'll help you with Linux, I only have a nice folder the 
>>size of a house with three different versions of Linux still in their 
>>images, but I do have a unix command summery, might help? Give me a shout 
>>and I'll send it across. Also there is a site called techonthenet.com 
>>which has a linux link on it.
>>
>> Chris Norman.
>>
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>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Brian Olesen" <brian at blindkom.dk>
>> To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 4:51 PM
>> Subject: New Linux user and several questions!
>>
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>> Ok finally I did it. Never thought I would. grin
>>> I'm talking about making the decition to try Linux for good and for 
>>> worse.
>>>
>>> More then 10 years ago I used dos allot and while studdying computer 
>>> science I played a bit with Unix.
>>> But 10 years is very long time without touching such a complex system, 
>>> so almost all of the knoladge I had at that time has gone away.
>>>
>>> With sighted help I installed a server installation yesterday based on 
>>> Fedora core 4.
>>> The machine is an ordenary pc celeron 2.66 GHZ 512 megs of ram, and a 40 
>>> gig hard drive.
>>> There is a c-media audio chip build in and the graphics card is a Nvidia 
>>> tnt 2 I think.
>>>
>>> The server is running fine and a good friend of mine is configuring lots 
>>> of programs and services remotely.
>>> Now on to the questions
>>>
>>> How can I get into Linux?
>>> Where do I start?
>>>
>>> Shortly about my background. I'm a Microsoft certified systems engeneer 
>>> Internet specialist, so at least I have good knoladge about computers in 
>>> generel, and windows stuff in particular.
>>>
>>> I've heard that there are diferent options to choose from when deciding 
>>> wich speech system you want?
>>>
>>> I can access the machine from other machines via secure crt and ssh, but 
>>> is it possible to install some speech on the machine itself?
>>>
>>> Well I'll not ask any more questions for now. I hope some of you more 
>>> experienced users will step in, and give me some information about how 
>>> to become a serious Linux user. Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Brian
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