[juneau-lug] Re: Linux Installed

  • From: Tony <tony.taylor@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 10:29:05 -0800

Zachary Family wrote:

> From: Tony <tony.taylor@xxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> If you can re-compile your kernel, I'd also suggest setting up
> | your Linux machine to be a masqing proxy for your other machines (also
> | called PAT (port address translation)).
> 
>     I've never messed with compiling or re-compiling the Kernel.  Is that a
> big deal or pretty straightforward?  once I have linux running, I don't
> really care to mess it up and have to start all over again if a destroy the
> kerner with a small typo or something. At this point, Linux still feels very
> fragile to me.  It works, but I can easily mess it up and get stuck.  (I
> love to tinker with things, but that sometimes gets me in trouble on
> computers. Can't afford to have a production machine at work down for
> several days because I tinkered with something and have to reinstall the
> system.).


Compiling the kernel is pretty easy, if you know your machine.  You'll 
have to make choices about the modules you want compiled into the 
kernel, and those you want loaded dynamically.  There are some excellent 
docs at the Linux Documentation Project (http://www.linuxdoc.org/ , 
mirrored in Alaska at http://www.aklug.org/LDP/ ).  This is something I 
encourage you to do on a *test* machine.  Once you've successfully 
compiled and installed a new kernel, you will never look at Linux the 
same way again.

>     I think that I have the Programming Perl book -- latest edition.  Feels
> like learning to swim in the ocean with 20 foot seas. So I've been
> supplimenting with some perl tutorials that I find online to cover some of
> the basics that the book appears to assume that you already know. Still lots
> of questions.


Definitely supplement that with "Learning Perl," a much thinner book 
designed to teach you Perl, not describe the language.  Programming Perl 
is a reference book; learning Perl from that is like learning English 
from the dictionary.

>     I suppose that there are so many variables in Linux that it is hard to
> write a single How To that really covers a project.  Many that I have read
> seem to have some rather specific assumptions about the system that you are
> running.

The Linux Documentation Project is your best resource for many of these 
projects.  There are a multitude of HOWTOs, FAQs, and generic documentation.

                                - Tony


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