New Linux user and several questions!

Brian Olesen brian at blindkom.dk
Fri Jul 8 22:35:14 UTC 2005


Hi Chris,
Thanks so much!
I've just done a yum update and oh my God it's now working. *ggg*
Don't hope I did anything wrong here.

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: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: New Linux user and several questions!


> Here it is mate, just a help I pulled from my shell account LOL, nothing
> posh!
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris Norman.
>
> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
> ----- 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.
>>>
>>> <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
>>> ----- 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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