On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
Where in India do you live? Have you had any luck in finding a LUG
near
you as was suggested a while back? I as that since you've said you are
a "beginner", you have chosen a pseudonym to reflect that, and it just
seemed that you'd benefit from that type of one-on-one environment.
I live in the Northern part of India. Well out of the job getting time
for LUG is typical still I would have to find the one to know the
geeky ways around the computers, that's of much enhanced curiosity.
Years ago I ran an LUG internal to a company and it helped the new
hires
learn the ins and outs.
You do still ran that? How often you come to India or you have ever been to?
Of course you can install openSuse. I'm just surprised that,
being a
beginner, you'd install that distro when their community seemed a bit
hostile when it came to, what they felt, were basic questions that could
be easily answered by doing a bit of research.
Yeah, I could have Googled but that showed me terrific results and for
a newbie, it was painful so I got afraid in the beginning.
Well, as a beginner, aren't you concerned that you'll be
dividing up
your time too much so that you'll not become proficient in one area and
that you'll confuse the way things are done among the distros?
Good suggestion but as a beginner I just wanted to play with the
distros for which I am downloading the LIVE CDs too and yes you are
correct, I should stick with Fedora so that I can get the grip of one
that I am using, a better way, I agree.
I'm sure others will be better at guiding you to a working
configuration
that you think you want.
Oh, okay.
I still like using VM's for my "alternate" distros as
it is easy to take
snap shots as you muck around and you can have multiple distros up and
running at the same time so you can compare things. Also, when and if
you get tired of a particular distro you just delete the VM's. Makes
redistribution of empty space a whole lot easier.
Okay VM, hmmm, but I guess we lose some functionality in VM, however,
this is just a newbie guess.....Rather, if Live CD is there, why not
to play around a few and then see...?
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with this, it doesn't matter /too/ much which
distribution
Linux Tyro actually goes with if you want to get general experience in
using Linux.
Yeah, going with both - Fedora and openSUSE.
Having lots of different distributions installed you'll
find that you:
1. End up doing lots of admin tasks on all of them. On this list we
tend to deal with lots of Fedora issues (e.g. not liking Gnome3, use
XFCE instead, problems with SELinux), but other distros will have
their own problems. With five distros you could potentially end up
doing five times as much of this annoying problem solving stuff. That
might be exactly the experience you're looking for or it might get in
the way of doing more interesting stuff. However...
That's just a holiday play to see the geeky way, if it works out or
not! However, I am sure that I would come back to the end with three
options - Scientific Linux (and that's why Fermi Lab, CERN are using
it!!), and Fedora and openSUSE
2. You'll probably end up using one over the others.
I agree this fact.
I had to break into the windows install on my laptop last month
because it turned out
I hadn't actually booted it into windows for two years and had
forgotten the password.
:), Windows people don't prefer now a days, I guess so.... less
secured, without a doubt!
Picking one and going with VMs for the others as Ed Greshko suggests
is probably a good compromise,
But I know it is for sure a compromise only!
unless you really want to investigate a
good way of getting so many systems to boot together happily.
Yeah sure.
Thanks.