Vikki - your plan sounds god to me! I looked at your website a while back and was pretty impressed. Along the way I decided to mess with Debian (I was running Mandrake on my desktop and switched to SuSE 8.2 Personal, and running dual-boot WinXP/Red Hat 9.0 on my work laptop).
Anyway - you might want to include a few distributions, as not everyone may be interested in Debian. I found Mandrake, SuSE and Red Hatto have a very good look and feel. With RHL moving towards Project Fedora, and Fedora Core at 1.0 - you may see interest in both Debian and Fedora. Anyway - as you get your home DSL line in, see if you can get some expereince in home wireless networking. It sounds simple - buy a WAP and your done. It's not that simple under Linux. I went through a wireless PCI 802.11B card for my laptop. Worked in Windows, not Linux. It was Linksys version 2.6, and I needed version 2.5. Found the same with a wireless 802.11B USB adapter. Tested an 802.11A/B/G card and got it working on SuSE 8.2 with madwifi drivers. Response was slow. Finally bought a WET11 bridge, and I just bridge it in. Only reason I'm bringing it up is that once a client (or friend) has DSL in, and if they have a laptop - they will bring up wireless. The other thing to look at is volunteering at a church, or if you are part of a homeschool group. Maybe put up a website or a forum, and use that experience to fill out your resume. I found that volunteering gives me experience in things I don't do that often: replaced hard drives, PD's LAN infrasctructure and replaced defective hubs (bad power and too many hits), replaced bad cable, set up a Payroll PC (don't forget power-up passwords and disk passwords for those kinds of animals). Finally - it might be cool to do a desktop install on a PC for your church or whatever civic group you might belong to. I found that our church got some donated PC's and re-uses them. My next project is to install Linux on one, just to give a taste of what it is and what it does. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
