10 mistakes commonly made on Linux...

ha agreed the command line is just so much faster than having to use the mouse pointer all the time. But in my noob days I must admit #8 permission's got the better of me. Burned my fingers with #9 and #5.. Initially I only wanted to work as root in X and then realized alas this can not be after kinda crippling my then installation of red hat 4 to little more than useless. And with Gentoo #5 is utterly important..and will never ever make that mistake again.
But overall Linux is still the biggest adventure u can take on your machine cause theirs always something nice to discover and something more to learn..really awesomely fun :) and for the guy starting in Linux today there really is so much documentation out there(especially for the Ubuntu okes) and Ubuntu also made it so easy for anyone to jump in that I'm almost envious.
 
There is significant power delegated to root, unfortunately responsibility is closely asociated with power. One can compare it with using Assembly/C/C++ versus common shell or Perl scripting – much more power but you better be sure that you know what you are doing.
I would never forget demo of DTrace on Solaris 10, run time debugging of kernel in order to achieve fine tuning of system and to really know what is going on.
Otherwise article must be taken with pinch (bowl) of salt. If author thinks that 777 is sufficient replacement for 0777 in every config file, he have seen nothing yet. There is long winding road to knowledge in front of all of us.
 
Bule said:
There is significant power delegated to root, unfortunately responsibility is closely asociated with power. One can compare it with using Assembly/C/C++ versus common shell or Perl scripting – much more power but you better be sure that you know what you are doing.
I would never forget demo of DTrace on Solaris 10, run time debugging of kernel in order to achieve fine tuning of system and to really know what is going on.
Otherwise article must be taken with pinch (bowl) of salt. If author thinks that 777 is sufficient replacement for 0777 in every config file, he have seen nothing yet. There is long winding road to knowledge in front of all of us.
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Very true indeed, even if you are a guru already.
 
I think another big mistake that newbies make is to expect Linux to be a Windows clone. Instead of focusing on the many more advantages that Linux has, they are forever focusing on the differences. It has reduced many an MCSE to tears... :D

Vive la différence! (cheesy, I know).
 
adrianx said:
I think another big mistake that newbies make is to expect Linux to be a Windows clone. Instead of focusing on the many more advantages that Linux has, they are forever focusing on the differences. It has reduced many an MCSE to tears... :D

Vive la différence! (cheesy, I know).
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too many people don't understand linux is not windows.

also love the command line. i always keep a terminal open. most system specific stuff will see me issue a su - and whatever the relevant commands are.

but on the whole (even in windows), people don't realise that you work much quicker by knowing how to do things from the keyboard. for me the mouse should be a last resort (in any OS).
 
I agree with everything except the first one. There has been times in the past that you just had to use a specific app to do something and the only way to get it was to compile from source.

Yes your package manager cannot keep track of it, but that has never been a train smash for me. I would not install something if I did not use it often, so I know what is on my system and keeping it maintained is no problem at all.

Saying that, it has been quite a while since I needed something that is not in the Gentoo repos already, mostly video editing and authoring tools.
 
I agree sometimes compiling from source is the only way. However it is unlikely that a newbie would require this, and just randomly installing stuff will produce a lot of clutter.
 
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