* David7 david7@ihug.co.nz [2004-07-07 15:41]:

Are there any hints or advice for a new guy?

Learn to read documentation, including how to find it.

Not much more to answer to such a broadly stated question.

Regards,

If you an get into Hamilton on a Monday night, (Sadly I cant ) get along to the lug meetings.

At the beginning a lot goes over your head, just let it go, meeting the people and the tips you pick up by watching them will make your life easier, you will learn a lot, and you will build good friendships and strong networks. Linux is more community than OS IMHO ..... And the OS really rocks.

Mandrake is good place to start in Linux, but most of the local lug use Fedora, Although there are a lot of die hard debian fans too. I'm on a slackware derivative nowadays, but we all learn from each other and help each other.

Also Google is a very good search engine for linux users.

David7 wrote:

Hello

I have just gone over, or come over, to Unix - Mandrake 10.0 they call it. It feels great. Are there any hints or advice for a new guy?

David C in Huntly, NZ, amateur Pascal progger, digest member.

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David7 wrote:

Hello

I have just gone over, or come over, to Unix - Mandrake 10.0 they call it. It feels great. Are there any hints or advice for a new guy?

We try hard to put any advice or hints into the wlug wiki.

http://www.wlug.org.nz/

The wiki lets *ANYONE* edit (almost) any page. If you goto a page (eg: http://www.wlug.org.nz/SandBox ) you will see an "[Edit]" button at the bottom. If you click it you will be asked for your name in a special format, type it in, and then you can edit that page.

Click around, there are literally *thousands* of pages in the wiki with all kinds of information. A lot of it is system administration related, or networking related, as most of the prolific editors have system admin/networking backgrounds, but there is a lot of desktop stuff there too.

If you find some piece of information you found difficult to find, please please please put it somewhere in the wiki. Even if it's just a obtuse comment, with bad gramm{a,e}r or spellnig, someone else will come along and correct it, and pad it out to make more sense.

Some interesting pages to start looking at might be: * http://www.wlug.org.nz/CategoryCategory * http://www.wlug.org.nz/RecentChanges * http://www.wlug.org.nz/NewToWiki * http://www.wlug.org.nz/WlugActivities

If you have any questions, or comments you can wiki them too :)

We have a lot of people watching the RecentChanges/RecentEdits pages like a hawk, if you post something it's quite possible that within an hour any page you edited would be updated by someone else too, which is how we deal with abuse (if someone deletes a page and replaces it with something silly, someone will just undo their changes)