How Linux Smart are you? Share your Knowledge.

[jivemasta]

If 0 is someone that doesn't know what linux is, and 10 is someone who has had their code compiled into the official kernel. Then I'd be about a 4. I have a decent arch linux setup with very little help from a guide, and I can fix about 90% of the stuff I break when I mess around.

[Dr Nick]

2-3/10. I haven't played with it much.

[Wyzard]

I've been running Debian unstable as my main desktop OS for about nine years. I've learned a lot in the process, and done some advanced things like setting up root-on-encrypted-LVM manually a year or two before the installer supported it.

My router is a mini-ITX PC running four instances of Debian under Xen, running an IDS (Snort), a true DMZ, and a VPN endpoint for when I'm away from home with my laptop — all set up manually.

[gman003-main]

I'd call myself about a 5. I've got a box running as a Samba server, with Apache to test PHP scripts, and I'm pretty good on the command line, but I'm very inexperienced with GNOME or KDE, and I don't do any kernel hacking.

BTW, if you want to get better at using the command line, do this (and expect to waste a lot of time doing so):
"ls /bin | xargs man"
Opens up the man pages for every single basic program. It took me about a month to get through.

[faze]

I do Linux system engineering for a living, so I'd consider myself to be at the expert level.

Whatever, rate me disagree. I know my own life. I'm not here to impress anybody.

[wlzshroom]

i'd say 2. I'm not afraid of the terminal, but even with the Arch beginners guide I can't install it for some reason. gonna take another shot at it again later

[editline]3rd December 2010[/editline]

using the command line makes me feel like a badass

[st0rmforce]

I'm not sure. 6 or 7? Maybe an 8? I don't know what to compare myself to.
I've been using it for around 6 years. I use it every day at work and near enough every day at home (although I don't really do much with it at home).

I either know or can guess very quickly where most config files are.
I know how to use most of the common tools: sed, grep, find, binutils.
I spend half my time ssh'ed into a TV tweaking configs, and the other half trying to guess the cause of a problem somebody on the other side of the word is having with our software/their hardware/their software/the tv stream/my instructions (or sometimes just trying to work out which one of those categories it is).

By day I'm just an ordinary embedded systems programmer, by night I muck about and try to break things.

[ineedateam1]

[QUOTE=LinuX;26249423]4, because I hardly use it.
I'll use it more often when Steam is ported to Linux (Without using WINE)[/QUOTE]

Same

I mess around in vms

[TSIThomas]

I use gentoo. for everything, webserver too.

[Minion Jake]

.5

I've just started with Ubuntu tonight, and I'm having some trouble installing Java, but not for lack of trying!

[{ABK}AbbySciuto]

I just learned that doing "init 6" or "init 0" will reboot or shutdown an Arch Linux machine, respectively.

Also, "export http_proxy" and "export ftp_proxy"

[ArcticVanguard]

About a 4 - more than enough to get by and I'm constantly reading and learning more. I have a pet project of Slackware in a virtual machine in Ubuntu. I'm proud that I just got the network working since it wasn't working on its own :P Same with mounting CDs.

[Activeellis]

I'm using mint.

...
Only because it is the only distro that works with my network card.

[editline]2nd January 2011[/editline]

so 1

[Elecbullet]

I've been sshing into my family computers from 1200 miles away and spying on my dad. I do it from my phone.

[Awwent]

i master "sudo apt-get install"
also i know how to install a rpm in less than 5 minutes if theres nothing wrong with the rpm like it usually is (wow people are so bad at making linux applications -.-)

so, a 9/10 i'd guess
i'm trying to learn how to remove the ui from ubuntu and install KDE instead and when i can do that good i guess i'm a 10
also what the **** are you guys talking about? ur making linux look so complicated u know i've only had linux for a few weeks and i already almost master it
ITS NOT THAT HARD

[Raneman]

I got an error before I even logged on.

[butre]

[QUOTE=Awwent;27163659]i master "sudo apt-get install"
also i know how to install a rpm in less than 5 minutes if theres nothing wrong with the rpm like it usually is (wow people are so bad at making linux applications -.-)

so, a 9/10 i'd guess
i'm trying to learn how to remove the ui from ubuntu and install KDE instead and when i can do that good i guess i'm a 10
also what the **** are you guys talking about? ur making linux look so complicated u know i've only had linux for a few weeks and i already almost master it
ITS NOT THAT HARD[/QUOTE]

basic use sure you've figured it out, we're talking the slightly quirky power user stuff. call me back when you can convert the contents of every file in your working directory to all-caps with one command

[bye]

troll or genuine moron right there

[butre]

probably a little bit of both, actually. the line blurs sometimes

[Badal]

I've done some slight dabbling with Ubuntu, but I love Knoppix Linux because it has saved my data twice from from a corrupted Windows. Data recovery doesn't get much simpler than throwing in a CD and copying everything to a flash drive.

[blackdenton]

I can hit Ctrl-Alt-t on my cr-48 (yes, I'm bragging) and connect to my web server. :D So maybe 1/10? I used to be higher but only use Windows these days. I think I was really into it around Slackware 8/9.

[Awwent]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;27166390]basic use sure you've figured it out, we're talking the slightly quirky power user stuff. call me back when you can convert the contents of every file in your working directory to all-caps with one command[/QUOTE]

#!/bin/sh

if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]
then
  echo "Usage: $0 [lower|upper]"
  exit 1
fi

for file in `find . -type f`
do
  if [[ "$1" = "lower" ]]
  then
    mv $file $(echo $file | tr [[:upper:]] [[:lower:]])
  elif [[ "$1" = "upper" ]]
  then
    mv $file $(echo $file | tr [[:lower:]] [[:upper:]])
  else
    echo "Unknown option $1. Use upper | lower"
    exit 1
  fi
done

exit 0

not that hard mr. pro

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=Awwent;27267212]

code

not that hard mr. pro[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;27166390]basic use sure you've figured it out, we're talking the slightly quirky power user stuff. call me back when you can convert the contents of every file in your working directory to all-caps with [b]one command[b][/QUOTE]

Hmm.. Are you sure about that? I think Buttsex has got a point you clearly missed.

[Rubber Duck]

I'm a 1.5 to a 2.

Still trying to figure out how to use yum and the terminal, just general stuff.
Actually, I'm using Fedora right now to write this post :p

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=Ayra;27290515]Hmm.. Are you sure about that? I think Buttsex has got a point you clearly missed.[/QUOTE]

I must have missed the point too.
It's a script, you run it with one command. All the easy commands like ls or cp are written in C. Some can be written in sh, perl, python, etc. Any other program to convert all files to upper case would be the same way.

[butre]

hint: it can be done with dd

[Awwent]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;27292926]hint: it can be done with dd[/QUOTE]
Well, no shit. I prefer having easy to remember commands made with my own scripts instead of some shit I can't remember in my head and have to look up every single time.

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;27292040]I must have missed the point too.
It's a script, you run it with one command. All the easy commands like ls or cp are written in C. Some can be written in sh, perl, python, etc. Any other program to convert all files to upper case would be the same way.[/QUOTE]

My point was (and I believe that this is what Buttsex wanted too, if I'm wrong, then please correct me), that "one command" is defined as one of the "coreutils" commands, followed by a undefined number of arguments.

[HubmaN]

If everyone's circlejerking here, I might get my question answered - what filesystems are guaranteed to have loaded by the type init's called? I don't assume it's the ones listed in fstab because init's supposed to start udev so I presume it's the ones that are required to load the kernel image and /sbin.

[Ayra]

[QUOTE=HubmaN;27301474]If everyone's circlejerking here, I might get my question answered - what filesystems are guaranteed to have loaded by the type init's called? I don't assume it's the ones listed in fstab because init's supposed to start udev so I presume it's the ones that are required to load the kernel image and /sbin.[/QUOTE]

Afaik, the kernel loads before the OS, and the OS is the one loading up udev, which does all that stuff for you. But the fstab thing is loaded before udev, iirc. I might be wrong though, if anyone else has some information on this, please do tell.
Oh, and filesystem doesn't have anything to do with it.