Become a Linux Guru

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 01:42:50 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 18:50 +0000, devicerandom wrote: 
> On 03/02/11 00:10, Pedro Timóteo wrote:
> > On 02-02-2011 13:55, Sandy Harris wrote:
> >> Explore. Try a few different Linux distros and at least one of
> >> the various *BSD open source Unices.
> >
> > ^This. It may sound weird, but exploring something like FreeBSD or
> > OpenBSD in addition to several Linux distros makes you much better at
> > Linux than if you *only* ever used Linux. I'd especially recommend
> > OpenBSD, since it's more "bare bones" and has probably the best man
> > pages in the world.
> >
> >
> 
> Agree.
> And in any case , step 1 is ditching Ubuntu and going with Gentoo. I 
> used it for years, and it teached me much more about Linux than any 
> binary distribution could.

<sighs> ...if only the original Caldera was still in business. I miss
'em. Ric


-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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