Re: [SLUG] What Do your acronyms mean and HELP!!

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 11:04:20 EDT


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On Sunday 16 June 2002 10:05 am, you wrote:

> I am a complete newbie to Linux and newsgroups.
> I read things like IMHO and FUD et. al. and I have no idea what these mean.
> Is there a list of slang acronyms and there meanings that I can reference?

Yes! Go see the Jargon File: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/

Enjoy!

Russell
>
> Thank You.
>
> Also I am attempting a network install across my lan from a downloaded
> Mandrake 8.2 edition off of Guild FTP in a win98 (which will be deleted
> after the learning curve) partition. I get good connection, the program
> goes into memory, the drives get partitioned and "an error has occurred
> missing basesystem package". and goes into an endless partition loop.
>
> I downloaded the iso's and checked their checksums before extracting them
> to the C:/Linuxcd directory which I serve ftp from.

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Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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