newbie intro

[Christopher Wagner]

6 1/2 years with NT?  That's a bummer..  I'm glad you survived. :)

NBLUG tolerance?  They put up with me, that's quite a feat in itself. :)

I think Dane had the Manchester distribution running on Sonic then, but
I'm not for certain.

SuSE, I've heard, is very nice, but I haven't experienced it much
myself.  Mandrake, I have experienced, it's basically RedHat with some
extra bells & whistles and nifty configuration tools.  Although if you
are looking to do server stuff, Mandrake and RedHat have a few big
security holes that need to be plugged first.  Which version are you
running?

Are you looking to use Mandrake as your router/firewall?  If so, which
kernel version are you running?  Different versions of the kernel have
different methods of implementing those features..  Plus, with the new
versions of the kernel, as Devin and Frank pointed out a few months
back, you get some really neat "intelligent" firewalling.  Check out
http://www.nblug.org/firewall/ for more information about their
presentation.  It's excellent reference material.


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Liz Young [SMTP:liz at sonic.net]
	Sent:	Tuesday, August 14, 2001 11:31 AM
	To:	talk at nblug.org
	Subject:	newbie intro

	Greetings All,

	Just joined the list.  After six and a half years borged by
WinNT, I'm 
	trying again to transition to Linux.   Just wondering how
tolerant 
	NBLUG is with newbies... I have lots of questions.

	My first intro to Unix was... well, Intro to Unix 1 & 2 with
Sean 
	Kirpatrick at the JC ('96).  I opened my Sonic account via
telnet from 
	Nermal, I think it was either 6 or 9 bucks a month back then.
And 
	wasn't it Slackware?  Anyway, I haven't done much with Linux
since 
	then, but recently picked up copies of SuSE (for my laptop) and 
	Mandrake (dual-booting on one Win2k PC, and testing server stuff
on 
	another old clunker). 

	My home LAN is connected to the Internet via NT4 running
WinroutePro 
	for NAT and firewall.  I have another NT4 (PDC) box running File
and 
	Print Services.  I'd like to convert the NAT box to Linux, but
have to 
	keep the other box running NT until I finish my MCSE upgrade
later this 
	year (blech! I know, I have almost ZERO motivation to do that
now).

	That's enough blathering for now, see y'all tonight!

	-Liz

Thanks for joining the list Liz!! :)

- Christopher Wagner
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