I need a job...

[Durelen]

There are a lot of free “shell accounts” out on the net that you can get. It’s not as good as having your own box but it’s a great start with a full time server on the net. The best part about free shell accounts is that it will get your hands wet with all the OS’s out there. There are some good pay/donation services as well that blow away the standard commercial web space many pay for and some free ones do as well as pay web space sites. The free ones will get you up and going with the basics of course. Just do a search on google.com for free shell accounts and you will have plenty to work with.

 

[ForeverChristian]

ok so now i have the linux OS, i just need to know how to use it

 

[derek03]

I was thinking about dual booting with Linux to learn all about it. The whole concept of a free operating system is great.

Derek

 

[ForeverChristian]

if you find where to download a copy of Red Hat Linux show me plz

 

[WeakButHopeful]

Well, I believe I originally download Red Hat from http://www.redhat.com/download/products.html using FTP (I mean I followed the instructions at that Web page for downloading using FTP, that's not an FTP address), but I have broadband and it still took me quite a while. I don't know what your connection speed is.


As you can tell I am also trying to learn Linux (though I have a full time job to distract me from fun stuff like this). If you encounter questions feel free to PM me. If I don't know then finding the answer might help me to learn. So far I've just setup the dual boot with WinME and have a "Data" partition that both WinME and Linux can "see". The machine is on my Windows network using Samba (when booted under Linux). I haven't gotten into programming on Linux yet, I just know some basics.

 

[ForeverChristian]

Well I just want to learn it, not make it my full-time OS. Do you have an answer for me now?

 

[Malone1234]

If you only want to learn the basics of Linux and not really use it as an OS, I recommend Knoppix. if you go to www.linuxiso.org i think there should be a version of Knoppix to download somewhere. Basically you burn Knoppix to a CD, and you can boot up your computer and run Knoppix whenever you feel like it, without actually installing anything to your hard drive.

Google search for Linux basics, and don't get discouraged. It will take you years to really harness the power of Linux. Remember, google is your friend, man pages are your friend, PHP is awesome (though you will probably use Perl more often if you really get into Linux programming).

 

[ForeverChristian]

i can't find any old computers for sale on ebay now

 

[ForeverChristian]

i have decided that i bought a compy of ebay and am going to install red hat 9.0 onto it as a sole OS but what if i'm not using the compy that i want to have Red Hat as the OS? I thought i could just burn a cd and install it on the other compy

 

[ForeverChristian]

and i don't know how to download it from the site its confusing me!!!

 

[ForeverChristian]

well i figured it out and now im going to have to wait for days to finish the downloads and burn them onto 3 cds then to install them onto the comp that i bought for $12.