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michael

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Date Posted: 23:38:06 05/11/05 Wed

I place to get computer parts. Some of this stuff is a little behind the curve but that can be a good thing if you don't need the latest and greatest.
www.compgeeks.com">http://www.compgeeks.com>www.compgeeks.com
Here's an sample of training available: www.youlearn.com.

One of my favorite resources (bundle of resources really) is right here: fedora.redhat.com

I've heard about some other flavors of linux that other folks like but I've only tried a couple and Fedora is impressive. Some other flavors are "debian", "mandrake", "gentoo" and "SuSe". This little list is a small subset of the total number of options. I doubt that any of them are significantly better than Fedora (only because Fedora is really good) but pretty much all the flavors are free so investigating won't cost anything but time. There is a comprehensive list of included software at the Fedora website but I'll mention some highlights here:

OpenOffice - A good (free) alternative to MS Office Suite. Includes text editor, spreadsheet, presentation application, drawing program and more.

GIMP - Graphical Image Manipulation Program. A viable alternative to Photoshop.

Project - Alternative to Microsoft Project.

Evolution - Alternative to Microsoft Outlook.

This stuff is all free and preloaded with the OS. The MS alternatives retails for hundreds or thousands of dollars.

In addition to the desktop stuff there are enterprise quality programming tools and server software included like apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, GCC, Squid, IPFilter, Bind, Sendmail, and a bunch of others. Learning to install, configure and maintain these things provides valuable and high-demand skills as well as providing useful servers for some purposes. A lot of this stuff can be used to write programs, serve web pages and build databases.

The particularly cool thing about this is that its all absolutely free to use and included in the OS so the only limitation is time and motivation.

A+ certification will get a person a job, knowledge of some of these server applications and the Operating System can get a person a very good paycheck (RedHat Certified Administrators are worth about 80K in some places).

That's probly enough ranting about this stuff for the moment. I recommend everyone download the fedora core 3 iso files, burn them to CDs and install them as a second OS. Regardless of anything else there is a lot of value for personal users. the fact that there is so much more potential for additional value to professional users is just icing on the cake.

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katy
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Date Posted: 09:42:13 05/22/05 Sun

So I just lost my post somehow...crap! well anyway, basically Mom and I both talked about your post (thanks for the info) but obviously hadn't posted. I have bookmarked both sites. I can't order the training materials yet though cause I have no dinero. Is there not some shareware as well? I have looked a little but not found much. As for the OS we were talking about using it as well. Were you the one that said to have one OS just for downloads? I thought that was a great idea although obviously this system has a lot to offer in other ways as well. Keep on sharing any links you have to helpful stuff. I am always interested. As a matter of fact a thread with useful links to add to from time to time is a great idea. There are such threads on each of the ebay boards and I go to them all the time so..everyone ante up. Now that I've said that I can only think of inane sites but then I am not a computer god and so no one is surprised. :-P By the way I will call you today or tomorrow. When is a good time?

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Author: michael [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:15:34 05/23/05 Mon Here's a good perl tutorial: www.perlmonks.org and a place for some other stuff: HREF=http://http://www.learnthat.com/>www.learnthat.com These are decent online resources for the technology inclined to get some info, tho' as I recall you have to pick through the "learnthat" site to find the good stuff. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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Author: michael [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 18:18:40 05/23/05 Mon Its easier to learn technology than to learn attention to detail. www.learnthat.com [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

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michael
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Date Posted: 12:26:59 05/27/05 Fri

Here are a couple of worthwhile tutorials on perl and PHP:

An Introduction to PHP

Perl is an extremely useful programming language that works very well to create utilities for data manipulation but its also one of the most used languages for website enhancements. It is very good for graphics display and manipulation.

Perl Tutorial: A basic program

PHP is a very cool programming language that is used in adding functionality to websites. If you can do html then PHP is not to big a step to take. Of course to really leverage the value of PHP its good to put it with MySQL as well. The three items in this bundle would then be Apache (webserver), PHP (programming) and MySQL (database). All three work independently as well but they are most useful in combination. Also all three are free and I believe they are included in the bundle of Fedora. All three can also be loaded on a windoze OS but that would probably be more trouble than merely installing fedora in a dual boot config. Then you have stable installs in a superior environment.

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