On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 08:21:51 -0500 Adam Maloney <adamm at sihope.com> wrote: >Right or wrong, my advice is to dive in head-first. Obviously, keeping >a Windows machine around is a good safety net, and you'll definately >need it. But I think the best way to really learn is to force yourself >to use your Linux machine whenever possible. There will be some pain in >the beginning, but eventually it will become second nature, and you'll >cringe at the days when you had to reboot to change an IP address. When I went away to school my first year, I spent the summer getting my computer dual booting NT and Linux (slackware at the time). For a while, I went back and forth, but after going 3 months without rebooting, I decided my NT partition was just wasted space. So, I reformatted the NT partition ext2 and put something more useful there (aka music) and went another 2 months uptime before I decided to upgrade the kernel. If you use it every day, you get used to it really fast. >It's just like how dad taught me to swim. Took me fishing and pushed me >into the lake. Then he took off to his next fishing spot and told me to >"Suck it up Nancy-boy, you aren't gonna drown." Sometimes I got to rest >for a couple of minutes before getting thrown back in. Good times, good >times. Vaguely familiar to my childhood, but I was given heavy bricks at the same time. Go figure. Jay _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list