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Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey

Posted by michael on from the picky-about-who-its-friends-are dept.

tim1980 writes "Derek Croxton has written a rather long editorial on how he sees the Linux and Open Source communities, and his personal experiences with Linux, the editorial is titled Two Years Before the Prompt: A Linux Odyssey and is over 3,500 words. Excerpt: 'A novice's greatest fear is sitting in front of a motionless command prompt with no idea what to type; or, as so frequently happens, knowing a command that he copied verbatim from a document discovered on the internet somewhere, but with no idea of what it means or how to alter it if it doesn't behave exactly as advertised.'"

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  1. Re:.so hell NOT NO MORE FOR ME! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    that's why god created apt-get.

    It's been years since I had to worry about dependancies.

    2 reasons:

    Apt-get from debian has been ported to Fedora/Redhat. I use Fedora. (laptop)

    I use Debian. (desktop)

    That's it.

    What to patch?

    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

    Wham bam thank you mam!

    Want mplayer, but Fedora doesn't have the ability to play DVD's or Mp3's?

    Head on down to Dag's RPM repositories, follow his directions and go:

    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade
    apt-get install mplayer libdvdcss xmms

    done and DONER!!!!

    Apt-get IS the killer application for linux.

    Update everything, patch everything. Not just core system like in Windows!

    No MORE DEPENDANCY HELL.

    It's realy quite nice. Install debian, upgrade to unstable. I've been running it for 2 years, no sweat and completely up to date.

  2. Mirrored by paulproteus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here, all you freeloaders ;-). I'll take it down later today.

    I just spoke with him on the phone, too; cool guy. I don't think he was expecting anyone to actually call him :-).

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