On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
