learn linux

I have to admit this could be a perfectly viable solution for someone who has very little money and needs to get a computer to make documents and/or surf the web.

I managed to finally find Firefox and make a shortcut. Sort of.

This is what happens when you try to install an OS that is completely foreign to you on a handmedown PC in a room that is swelteringly hot becuase there is no air conditioning and the fans are just moving the hot air along.

So I picked up the Red Hat Linux Bible for $6.99 (it was an older version) and installed Fedore Core 1. I could have stuck with RH9, but it wasn’t communicating with the Red Hat network, and their instructions for updating the updater had me jumping through hoops, fighting a tiger, and spilling the blood of my firstborn. At least it seemed that way.

Anyway, I finally installed Fedora and went to update it (since the whole reason I bought a new copy was to be able to update it) and… the red hat network was down for maintainence for 24 hours!

Yeah. I was loving it.

So I figured that I would install Firefox, which I was able to do without a problem. (After finding the release notes) What WAS a problem was finding a way to actually launch the program. I can’t even find the program file or its folder for that matter.

I did manage to install Flash player though.

Oh, for fcuk’s sake, where the bloody hell is Firefox? I just installed it!

Just installed Red Hat 9 on this hand me down P3 550 I just got. Now all I need to do is figure out where that copy of Firefox I installed is, how to update this thing, and generally understand what the f#@k I’m doing and I’ll be ok.

The Nokia 770 internet tablet:

Today Nokia introduced its first device in the new Internet Tablet category, the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, at the LinuxWorld Summit in New York. The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet is a dedicated device optimized for convenient Internet browsing and email communications in a sleek pocketsize format. The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet features an impressive high-resolution (800×480) widescreen display with zoom and on-screen keyboard, ideal for viewing online content over Wi-Fi. Aside from Wi-Fi, the device can also connect to the Internet utilizing Bluetooth wireless technology via a compatible mobile phone.

I have a copy of Knoppix and now I have to find something to do with it. Its always easier to learn when there is a direction, something to work on, to work towards. But having the OS is a start, and at least I don’t have to re-partition my HD or upset the status quo to get it to work.