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Linux » Blog Archive » Linux 101 - The very basics of Linux — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:54:12 +0000

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By: luis

luis — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:17:48 +0000

dale,
i’m simply amazed at seeing how you expressed precisely my thoughts and motives behind the use of Linux, and this has led me to think that we are not the only ones on this expedition to Linux land, we can only wonder how many people think alike?

By: goldfisch

goldfisch — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:48:31 +0000

what about slackware?
this is the best distribution for people who want to know what is real, not being confused too much

By: dale

dale — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:18:23 +0000

i recently set up a ubuntu box .. i must say there is a learning curve coming from xp but i don’t think it’s insurmountable to most users that are web savvy. i too am determined not to upgrade to vista and hope to be accomplished in using linux by the time xp is no longer supported. this is a helpful article and is well written.

By: Marijn Oosterveld

Marijn Oosterveld — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:45:05 +0000

You forgot:

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Fedora 6

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By: fadumpt

fadumpt — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:10:29 +0000

Kirk Badger:

A fax machine in general is rather complicated to use, one can not just happen across one and figure it out, or even read the manual and fully come to terms with it.

Windows is only slightly usable because they are familiar with it, most have been force fed windows for a decade and still openly admit they have no real clue how to use it.

90% market share no accident? You bet it wasn’t, it took a lot of effort in screwing over a lot of people to make that happen. Given a *CHOICE*, your average person wouldn’t pay $100 to $200 a pop for inferior software that can be considered beta at best.

The “The linux is for system programmers and not for users” and “linux has no software, is hard to use, and not ready for mainstream for another few years” arguments are antiquated and old. It’s already shown it’s ability to work great in businesses and homes, so you’ll have to pick something else to argue against it.

Actually, I just checked your site and you seem to, as far as one can tell….support linux, so why the BS?

PS: I’m not a software programmer and don’t like to tinker with applications…I use linux because it works well and does what I want. That alone makes it worth more then a windows install.

By: viper

viper — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:35:33 +0000

Great little article for n00bs like me. Would love to see an equivalent which explains the basics of UNIX.

By: jgf

jgf — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:22:23 +0000

Fedora?
Suse?
Debian?
Slackware?

Being that the title of the page is “Linux 101″, it is unnecessary to mention distros such as Debian or Slack-neither being a noob-friendly distro.

By: Matt Courtney

Matt Courtney — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 13:16:49 +0000

The Linux Documentation Project is also a very good source of info for newbies to Linux

By: Owen

Owen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:51:52 +0000

Informative and well-written. I’m going to distribute the URL for this post to everyone I come across who’s sick and tired of Windows (and maybe some who aren’t)