RH9 or FC2 on Laptop with WiFi

[Kevin Old]

Ryan,

Also, with your wifi (and any other network connection(s) ) I
recommend Quickswitch at
http://muthanna.com/quickswitch as it helps you switch network
profiles quickly and painlessly on any flavor of linux.  I've been
using it for about 4 years and what a life saver.

It's written in Perl and is very easy to configure and use.

You asked about languages to learn, well I'm a Perl programmer and
definitely recommend learning Perl.  It's one of the most useful
languages and is extremely powerful.  Have a look at
http://learn.perl.org for more info on what to read and how to get
started.

Hope this helps,
Kevin

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Kevin Old
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