hello everybody here!
 

hello to everybody on this forum
i am pratyush gupta from iips college indore jus starting off with my 3rd year in btech(it).
Well now tat i have got some interest in technical thing i wanted to ask the prerequsite to becoming a well versed guy in linux.
do write bak plz
with thanks

Hi and welcome to LinuxQuestions.

Best bet to becoming well versed? Using it.

Pick a distro, install it, use it, break it, fix it. Repeat as necessary.

thank you!
 

thank you sir!
the reply you posted is very motivating for head start but there are a few questions more i would like to put up.
they are:
1.which flavour of linux to use for beginning?
2.do i need to b skilled in programming before starting off?

again i would like to thank you sir and i wish for further knowledgeable communications.
pratyush gupta

1. Go to distrowatch.com, pick one of the top 10, and use that. When you're bored, try another.

2. No.

Starting off with slackware 11.
 

hello sir ,
As per the recommendation of one of my seniors who is also active member of this site im starting off with slackware 11.
i have to just finalise freeing space on my hard disk and then i shall start .i hope this journey would be successful and helpful.
thank you once again.
pratyush

Good luck :)

I find Slackware to be a fine distro (I use it myself), although there is a new version out (version 12.0), which has some quite significant changes from version 11.0.

i can't get version12.0
 

sir,
my workstation doesnt connect to the internet because it doesnt have one ther therefore i have to reach some place else to access it and therefore im not able to download it but i guess even version 11 would do the job for a beginer like me .
im grateful that you reply to my threads so frequently.
pratyush

um... for beginer i would suggest with something more easy then slack actually, like ubuntu, mandriva, or PC Linux OS