i've been a linux user since 1998, when i bought a copy of SuSE and installed on an extra hard drive. back in those days, the documentation on installing was sketchy at best, and it took rather more than a few tries to get it right.

i didn't like it all that much - so i switched to redhat, and have been faithful ever since. i've done a variety of "production" class installs, including travis.af.mil.

additionally, i've built and manage various linux boxes, some of which include a squid proxy / webalizer httpd and ftp log analyzer / apache webserver testbed and development box.

here's a link to the rdesktop mini-HOWTO i wrote out of pure frustration. it's pretty raw, and it's coded to html 3.2 standards, for backwards compatibility with older browsers. i've not submitted to the l d p, but i might. who nows? here it is in tar'ed and gzip'ed format.

i was looking for something to do, and since i'm a linux user, why not share some of the things i've had to puzzle out on my own? i'll get to that in a minute, but first, let me mention the excellent linux documentation project. if you have a question, you can usually find your answers there.

there are also groups of linux users, called LUG's, and there is a very good chance that there is one in your area. for you east bay / sac area users, check out LUGoD, the Linux User's Group of Davis. they are well organized, and very active. There's also the NBLUG, but they're further than i care to travel.