On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > 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.
I was planning on working with whatever distro the customer already had installed. I have a little (granted, very little) experience with RH (7.2), and if/when I get a laptop I'd put Slackware on it for a little while, just to get some experience with it, and I'd also put RH on it just to stay in practice. > 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. Hmm, I'll look into it. First I've got to finish HS, get a job, and get together some money to get a laptop, etc. Meanwhile my parents have to get DSL. > 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 don't go to church anymore (used to be Catholic, now I'm an atheistic Buddhist), but I do belong to a homeschool group and I'm already maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > 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. Hmm, if only the homeschool group had a place to keep the computer, it'd be interesting to do that. See, we don't have a permanent meeting place-- we depend on nice churches in the area for a place to have our co-op classes (parents teach various classes on various subjects-- everything from anatomy for elementary schoolers to trivia (the class I'm taking this 6 weeks) to chess), and we use the electric company's meeting room for our group's monthly meetings. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ If you knew what Mona Lisa knew, you'd smile too. PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a18 C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r x+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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