This is a page that at least, i feel, will
fill, a vacuum..
;)
I've started
at least three times to install and use Linux
And if you've tried that more than once yourself,
you know the feeling
;)
Talk about
frustration..
Well here i am again, trying to get it
up to my liking.
This time i'm gonna try to put up those
problems, that i can't find in them man pages etc.
And the solutions to... hopefully
Even if i'm gonna end up being the only
one reading it,
it's still gonna give me a warm feeling
of
ACcOMPLISHMENT
to find that i, at least understood some,
of Linux Peculiarities
(sort of)
as f ex;
how to start it ..
Compile it..
find all of those libraries that somehow
melted into thin air
Understand why the software wont work
and why the net gets hay wired
And why (as a round figure) half of the
programs installed doesn't exist.
Even though Slackware/Red Hat insist that
they all been installed
And "ALAS" should work ... just fine.
In Other Words T
R O U B L E Shooting
If it eases your Hi
techno_un_logical mind
Just see me as a Tourist
in that wonderful land of OZz.
;)
As It Can Be, Once upon A Time.
So what do we need to have before trying
to install this system then?
A Coffe_machine, yes
A smile, mhmm
a Computa, yep
And a neighbourly Linux_Guru...
Oh no, i've seem to have lost that item!
Never Thy Mind
How hard can it be?
Let's see, i've got this Slack ware CD
Now i'm gonna put it in my Computa
and Voi'la. Out will come a Linux OS.
What! Make boot able diskettes? They must
be joking! I've already put in a CD???
Okay, Okey, i'll make them. And now what?
Aha, Restart and boot with the diskettes.
WOW.. It looks like it's working.
Jesus. I'm a LinuxGuru..
So now i wanna make X.
That's X-Windows for you nonGurus Out
There.
But Hey, i don't have a "Static IP_number".
My Provider (ISP) wont give me one.
The sneaky Bast..
I only get, whadaya call them, Dynamic
IP.
But, What the heck, i'll make one up then.
It can't be that important, right.
Okay, lets see, wooa, they want me to
know how my monitor works.
why ask me? It's their Linux, for crying
out loud
I always go for the best, thata way i'll
have the best computa alive..Right.
OUuw, strange GUI that one, what's
that smell??
Okay, i'll cool down then and try something
less hi tech.
lets see, a VGAserver 16 colours 640 X
480
Sounds okay, I'll try that.
YES YES YES..
I've got an Graphic User Interface.
am i gifted or what!
But? Where's them programs???
Ghost script, is that a game?
Uhu.
TWM? sounds like some TV-company?
I don't get it, where's the fun and play???
So you end up with an amazing MultiTasking
Box of nothing..
Yeah, it's fun directing "pipes" and out
& input from your console.
But after a week of that you get that itchy
feeling that you would like to play
f ex Doom.
And here's where your libraries starts
to spook you.
It keeps asking for some library that
you never heard of.
And where should you put it, if you found
it?
The same procedure happens when you try
the X_Doom.
So you end up with asking yourself
What am i gonna use it for..
If you had the m$$ney you could put up
a Internet Server
I don't.
Don't
Despair
;)
You do have use of it.
First of all, it will give you a good
understanding of
Computers way of "Thinking".
And you will learn how to make programs
to, if you have the patience.
Okay, so it's mostly scripts, still, it's
programming
And it's for the net...
And you'll learn more about routing, gateways,
IP, TCP, ARP
(; aso aso ;)
Than you ever wanted to know
And yes, them Doom will work
:)
so okey_la_Dokey
Next chapter.
What you have to consider
as a Non_Americano
_Subject
First.. Linux primary function seems to be
as a networking tool.
And if you don't happen to have some C_pT_as
just laying around
you'll have to get it up on the net, for
it to be any fun..
R I G H T..
And as you don't have the money to pay for
one of those
ISDN
or whatever those leased lines are called.
and as you don't live
in one of them "States"
where it's only the initial connection that
costs, you'll just have to be Creative
;)
Cause if you got a "Provider",
you've got a connection.
And if you got a connection...
Yeah..
So What??
You may ask.
The difference between a dynamic IP_nmbr
& a static is just that a dynamic
only exists under that short moment you're
on the net.
&
that the next time you're up, you probably
will be assigned a different one...
But if you could find a way to let people
on the net know that IP_number.
And if you had a Internet Server...
They could come visit
;)
&
if you then had some nice CGI-script.
Or Meta-HTML
or an AOL-server
or Apache
Well...
Offcourse. you'll need "something"
to show them that numba
$ee
the ligh a_coming
will continoue
