what to do next?

Guest · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 10:18 pm Post subject: what to do next?

Hi everyone. I'm trying to learn linux from the basics using gentoo. I was able to install and configure my system from stage 1 without much trouble. I've followed the documentations further and got xfree86, kde, alsa, and samba working. Yet, I still don't feel "fluent" in setting up and using linux systems. Can someone give me a pointer as to where I should go from here to fully experience linux?

wildcard · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 55 Location: New York

Just keep using it and trying different htings on it. Thats how i learned linux I've been using it for four years and don't feel like i've mastered it
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orkid · Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 11:37 pm Post subject:

check out developerWorks at ibm. They have a lot of stuff about linux (Goto the articles section under gentoo.org) Lot's of goodies there

jtanner · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 4:19 am Post subject:

Well, what do you want to do with the box?

If you want a desktop system, try out different window managers/environments, and configure them to behave the way you want to.

If you have modem access, you could configure it to be a dial-on-demand gateway, and whatever your connection, a good firewall is a must nowadays. If you have multiple machines that you want to connect, investigate nat as well. Read up on ppp and IPTables.

If you want a web server, install apache and experiment with building a website.

You could also build a file server. In addition to samba, set up nfs, ftp, etc.

Mail is always nice to have locally--set up (and secure) an smtp server, a pop server and an imap server, and configure fetchmail to download all of your mail from other accounts.

Then there's dns, print server, ssh server, etc.

Jim

Guest · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2002 2:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks very much. I really appreciate these suggestions. I guess the advice here is to try everything that's interesting.