Linux Newbie

[Thin Lizzie]

Thanks Penguin! I pinched the avatar from another BB!

Mr L started using a version of Linux when he was at college, about 1997-ish, but he didn't get it for his own computer until after we started at uni, which would have been around 2001. He really plugged it at university, and got loads of folks interested.
Oddly enough, when he met my grandma, all they talked about was Linux - I had no idea she used it!
I don't know that much techy stuff. I always think I do, but there's some major thing I've overlooked! I'm learning HTML and PHP at the mo, but I only know the absolute basics, and it's gone on hold due to essay-writing and summer exams!
I was never even interested in being anything more than passive with Linux until last summer, when for some reason I wanted to get to know how it works!
I can't remember the name of the first Linux package we had - it was on a few CDs in an official-looking green&white box with the penguin on.
Then we had Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu (sp?), some others, and now are settled on Gentoo.

EDIT: my post is too long, and my rice boiled over while I was writing it

[PenguinHappy]

Nothing like pinching good stuff.

Your grandmother knows about Linux, wow mine has never been on a PC though she hears about the internet from TV news programs. She is 95, so can't really expect her to be that aware of it.

That's cool that you are learning HTML and PHP, I've definitely heard that HTML can be so useful in professional life even if you don't have anything to do with programming. I'd like to begin to learn, but not sure how to go about it really.

How are you diving into it?

[Thin Lizzie]

I've been using w3schools.
You get loads of examples, and you can paste code into your editor and change it about so you find out what it does without having to know how to write it properly. You can make something that works and looks quite good almost straight away

[PenguinHappy]

That sounds like a great approach- always fun to see you can do a tad bit of something with just a bit of effort at learning it.

I'll have to look into that.