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"Pretty much what richj said, but to add some other pointers that have helped me
Try a lookup a local linux user group, and attend a few meetings. That will help you get involved. They will most likely put on some tutorials at their meets, possibly have kit meets a few times a year, and you'll be able to ask questions face to face, and get ideas on what to try
Go out and buy a linux magazine, here in the UK I would recommend Linux Format, good articles aimed at all skill ranges, and a cover CD with a few LiveCDs on each month
Join some linux mailing lists, your local LUG should have one, that way you can see what people are getting up to with their linux systems, to give you ideas (you may even be able to help them with issues)
Setup your own blog, write up everything you do with your Linux system, you'll learn a lot just by writing it up ;)
Forums, forums forums! Join the forum for your distro, join http://www.linuxquestionsdotorg/questions/index.php, maybe a forum for your area. Once again it immerses you in what others are trying to do
IRC, join the IRC channel for your distro
There are loads of things you can do to get more involved, its all about immersing yourself in it!
Other than that, try some of these
Setup your own media server in linux, maybe MythTV
Try and run some windows games in Wine
Connect your iPod / media player and organise your music
setup your own local blog on your server
setup mysql/apache/php and try and play with some websites, use linux tools such as vi for editing files, use command line access to mysql instead of some gui
setup some shell scripts to backup your media to another directory, that will teach you some scripting"
"Pretty much what richj said, but to add some other pointers that have helped me
Try a lookup a local linux user group, and attend a few meetings. That will help you get involved. They will most likely put on some tutorials at their meets, possibly have kit meets a few times a year, and you'll be able to ask questions face to face, and get ideas on what to try
Go out and buy a linux magazine, here in the UK I would recommend Linux Format, good articles aimed at all skill ranges, and a cover CD with a few LiveCDs on each month
Join some linux mailing lists, your local LUG should have one, that way you can see what people are getting up to with their linux systems, to give you ideas (you may even be able to help them with issues)
Setup your own blog, write up everything you do with your Linux system, you'll learn a lot just by writing it up ;)
Forums, forums forums! Join the forum for your distro, join http://www.linuxquestionsdotorg/questions/index.php, maybe a forum for your area. Once again it immerses you in what others are trying to do
IRC, join the IRC channel for your distro
There are loads of things you can do to get more involved, its all about immersing yourself in it!
Other than that, try some of these
Setup your own media server in linux, maybe MythTV
Try and run some windows games in Wine
Connect your iPod / media player and organise your music
setup your own local blog on your server
setup mysql/apache/php and try and play with some websites, use linux tools such as vi for editing files, use command line access to mysql instead of some gui
setup some shell scripts to backup your media to another directory, that will teach you some scripting"
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