Mike McCarty wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > [snip good advice] > > > Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning! > > > > VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're > > all good for learning! > > > > Create a VM per-distro, see how each distro installs, see how each > > is managed. Take snapshots and play around with their configs, see > > how they break, see if you can fix them, if not revert to the > > snapshot. Get your feet wet. > > May I suggest that, if you really want to learn how a Linux > system gets put together, and works, then get a copy of > Linux from Scratch and build your own? > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ > Well for a newbie that might be too much to start with. I'd probably go, CentOS/RHEL/Suse -> Gentoo, then if you know the parts of a working distro well, then try to roll your own. -Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.