Hello Mark,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Burrows</b> <<a href="mailto:burrows.mark@gmail.com">burrows.mark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p>Can someone suggest a starting point on learning Linux?</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>First of all, welcome to the community! =)<br><br>I may consider myself as an experienced systems/network administrator but with Asterisk and telephony, I am still newbie to it. For me, Asterisk and telephony in general is a totally different world. If I may suggest to you, try to check Trixbox <
<a href="http://www.trixbox.org/">http://www.trixbox.org/</a>> because it's a pretty easy to setup VoIP software appliance in one distribution. Although I must admit that I didn't tried installing it and I installed Asterisk instead "the-hard-way" TM on my Debian Etch <
<a href="http://www.debian.org/">http://www.debian.org/</a>> so that I would learn (hopefully) this technology. Anyway, my setup here is only on my home PBX so nothing to worry.<br><br>If you would like to learn GNU/Linux systems and/or network administration, you will have to choose a "distribution" to start with. You can choose GNU/Linux distributions at the DistroWatch website <
<a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/">http://www.distrowatch.com/</a>>. I use Debian GNU/Linux Etch here as my OS. You can also find useful information on GNU/Linux and F/OSS in general at The Linux Documentation Project website <
<a href="http://www.tldp.org/">http://www.tldp.org/</a>>. Your distribution of choice might have a good documentation specially the systems and network administration.<br><br>Good luck!<br><br>GNUbie<br>