[TriLUG] good newbie book

[Beth Ellison]

>What I have heard from Red Hat people is that Linuxconf is going away, to 
>be
>replaced by "something better", though I don't know what "something better"
>is.

It is gone. GNOME has all these config tools in Nautilus now. User Manager 
(redhat-config-users) is there for linuxconf type things.









Point him to Webmin, though, and he'll be thrilled.  Show him how he
>can change his network config on the Linux box from a browser on his 
>windows
>box, and not have to reboot.  That will tickle him.
>
> > thanks in advance for any advice you guys can offer.  situations like 
>this
> > make me realize how much i DON'T know about linux yet...  i feel like 
>the
> > blind leading the blind.
>
>Well its just that, to borrow terminology from Bob Young, the hood isn't
>welded shut.  You can actually see the guts of everything, and have a high
>degree of control over it.  That's a double edged sword sometimes, and does
>require someone to tinker a bit especially when they are using their OS in
>ways that differ from a more typical installation.
>
>
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