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What does this mean to a person like me who is just aspiring to be a Linux developer/user and is looking for a good distro to start?
by geekam 16y ago
What does this mean to a person like me who is just aspiring to be a Linux developer/user and is looking for a good distro to start?
- davidw 16y agoMy advice: get Ubuntu or Debian, and help fix bugs. Report them, investigate them, discuss them with the developers. Propose improvements, with patches. Don't get bent out of shape if they reject your ideas, but try and learn from it.
- geekam 16y agoThanks. That was helpful. Who can help on how to get started with Linux programming? Is there any one for newbies and beginners?
- davidw 16y agoWell, "Linux programming" is a very broad subject. Do you want to do GUIs with Tcl/Tk, kernel modules in C? Scientific applications in Fortran?
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- geekam 16y agoI wanted to get into Kernel programming but I do not have infrastructure nor knowledge. I am really fond of FOSS and was hoping that I could devote some time to solve bugs too (other than creating FOSS myself) and get into the FOSS world.
- mpk 16y ago'Linux programming' is fairly vague, but whatever you end up doing (C#/Mono, C/kernel, erlang, LISP, etc it's all there), you definitely want to learn (bash) shell programming and either Perl or Python because that's what most distros use for automation. You can't really get a firm grip on any distro without learning that part.