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Two other sites that will be useful are http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
and http://tldp.org/ .

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 08:00, Eric Schabell wrote:
> Sebastian,
> 
> I am posting this to our sm-discuss mailinglist, which is the first place
> you need to subscribe to, all lists can be found here:
> 
> http://www.sourcemage.org/resources/lists/
> 
> Ok for the rest see below.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:18:59AM -0700, sebastian uutela wrote:
> > Hello sir.
> > I'm a complete newbie to Linux, but decided to switch from Windows for 
> > many
> > good reasons. I have no previous experience on computers, not even dos, 
> > only MS
> > Windows xp, but I'm willing to learn new things with Linux. I tried 
> > mandrake
> > (bamboo), but didn't really like it, and then switched to gentoo, which 
> > was
> > maybe a stupid thing to do as a person who is just starting with Linux, 
> > but I
> > am resolute in my attempt to learn Linux and what would be a better way to
> > achieve it than take the hard way. I like the source compiling method, and
> > decided to give sourcemage a try, as I'm looking for a source based 
> > distro that
> > would suit my specific laptop setup better (than gentoo).
> >  
> Sounds good, another place to hang out for immediate help with your
> switch is irc:
> 
> irc.freenode.net  
> #sourcemage
> 
> Many nice and friendly people here helping out.
> 
> Finally see our documentation site at:
> 
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/
> 
> Which includes all kinds of install docs, howto's and faq's.
> 
> > What I'm asking here is:
> > What should I read /study in order to understand Linux in general better?
> >
> Read, use, and ask many questions. If you run Source Mage GNU/Linux you
> will learn alot, believe me. One warning, if you like Linux and use
> Source Mage you will never go back to another distro.
> 
> > What would be the major differences/advantages with Sourcemage/Gentoo?
> >
> Search our mailinglists for these sort of questions. Als see the
> forums at: 
> 
> http://forums.sourcemage.org/
> 
> Here you will also need to register to post.
> 
> > What skills would I need to be able to contribute something to Sourcemage
> > project(?) or Linux community in general? Programming?
> > As for now, I can only help in translating text from English to my native 
> > lang.
> > Finnish, but if that is needed I'm more than happy to volunteer.
> >
> Translation skills you already have, documenting is another we could
> use. As far as development we have spell (application) maintainers that
> only need to edit text files and like compiling software to test new
> version. For actual coding we work with only Bash scripting language.
> 
> > As for now, I'm looking forward to install sourcemage on my puter next 
> > weekend,
> > and start from there.
> > I understand you are busy there, but if you have spare time, I'd 
> > appreciate if
> > you could give some answers to my questions.
> > All the best from me, keep it up.
> > 
> Hope this helps you out and look forward to seeing you on irc!