The Linux Introduction Thread

[Pemolis]

This is the Linux Introduction thread. Those Linux Enthusiasts or Wannabe's can introduce yourself here.

To use this thead Please Follow these few tiny rules:

1) Introduce yourself :wavey2:
2) Tell us which Installation of Linux you Use (a link to the OS website would be nice, but not required).
3) A link to a Linux website which has good information on Linux bonuses, installation/maintenance help, or other good info.

Pemolis, New Yorkian who hates many financial institutions.

Fedora Core 4 (http://fedora.redhat.com/)User (freshly installed). Dual boot with WinXP. I want to be a debian user.. but the net driver is a ( :censored: ) to install.

Best installlation Guide I found for Fedora.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc4.shtml

(I have a debian installation guide (awesome guide) which I'll find the link for later tonight).

Wierd Note. RedHat/Fedora has an issue reading NTFS, while all others can read it without issue. There is a RPM (linux version of a exe) online which you can install into the Fedora/Redhat kernel so it can read NTFS. You can find it here. (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/)

[Nija]

I run mandrake 10.2 (I think)

I constantly use the Linux Documentation project (http://www.tldp.org/docs.html)

I've also found that Linux ISO (http://www.linuxiso.org) is a great place to get almost all distributions.

[shocky123]

Open source all the way.
Anyways, I use custom built kernels on about half of my boxes, and Debian distributions on the rest.. though I'm in the process of trying to move all the boxes over to their appropriate Debian distributions.

~Kyle

[revil]

I use Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org) on my external harddrive (http://www.kurobox.com/).

[TruckStuff]

I run a combination of Redhat and Linux From Scratch installs. LFS is a *great* way to learn the ins and outs of linux. Been wanting to try something like slack, but I haven't gotten around to doing it.

Best site for all things linux, IMHO: http://www.linuxquestions.org