Ever Notice

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Ever Notice
started by: AwPhuch

Posted by AwPhuch on Feb. 01 2005,18:43

Its either your good or your DAMN good, usually no inbetween when trying to figure out DSL...I have been using it quite a bit, but dont know jack about doing frugal, or backups or whatever...perhaps just a learning curve?

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by noclobber on Feb. 01 2005,23:18

I don't know whether I'd put myself in the damn good, good, or some lower category, but I was pretty much a noob at Linux prior to discovering DSL. I'd been wanting to learn more about Linux for some time, and DSL is small enough for me to wrap my mind around it. Could never do that with Mandrake - sort of like trying to sip from a fire hose.

There's always a learning curve to everything. I regularly lean on a pile of notes I took from a set of Keystone videos on learning UNIX back in 1998 to get started with Linux, then do a lot of digging on the net and here in the forums when I want to learn about something new. It all takes time - and a *lot* of reading, but so far I've learned to do HD installs, customize DSL to my liking, and then remaster from that. Next, I want to explore frugal installs, maybe install DSL on my laptop, and eventually do some Linux development, so lots more digging to do.

I'm still amazed by the "Hey, that's neat. Why didn't they put that in Windows?" factor. For example, I now use dd to regularly back up an entire HD onto a larger one, and it's just a simple command line app. Pretty neat if I consider the $$$ it would have taken to buy a bloated GUI utility like Drive Image or Norton Ghost to do that in Windows.

Just learn what you need to know as you go along.