Barkerburgh

But the jury (and by jury, I mean Me) is still out.

Discovered alien. Couldn’t run it as me, because I’m not root. Couldn’t log in as root, neither from any app/point/terminal locally nor via ssh from my W2K machine.

Discovered ssh. Couldn’t telnet. Couldn’t ssh from W2k until I installed it from the Ubuntu gui.

Discovered nano. Why would anybody use vi? Or even vim? Taliban geeks, that’s who.

Disovered sudo and gksudo. Thank you, geek gods! Why can’t I log in as root from the initial log in gui?

Discovered chmod, chown, a couple of others. Couldn’t modify config files because I’m not root. Couldn’t log in as root

Discovered the Root Terminal. Finally! I nearly cried, I swear to Christ.

Discovered info.

Disovered .conf files.

Discovered I actually like digging around in the man files and about 20 different Linux pdfs and chms.

Discovered alien Apache works and alien PHP will install, but they ain’t talking yet.

Knowledge is Power!

(I feel like the kid in the SciFi story who finds the ancient computer left over by a lost civilization and he has to learn how to use it to save his people, but there’s a deadline looming and he’s really only a peasant farmer. Story ends badly.)

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