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10-09-2003, 10:09 AM
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Best way to learn....
I'm looking for a book to read or I've even seen some training cds for newbs and linux. What do you guys recommend as far as learning the basics and then some.
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10-09-2003, 10:17 AM
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I recommend the book Running Linux and the Red Hat Manuals.
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10-09-2003, 10:23 AM
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Red Hat Linux 9 Bible
even if you're not a RH fan it's a worthy reference manual to start with.
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10-09-2003, 07:07 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Springfield Ma.
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2,Knoppix 3.7,Slackware 10.0, FreeBSD. 5.3, OpenBSD 3.6, NetBSD 2.0, Debian
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Linux in a nutshell, is also a good reference book to have around.It has a good list of commands.
Hanging around these forums is also a really good way to learn. hth.
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10-11-2003, 12:59 AM
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Rute by Paul Scheer. Searching LQ will also turn up many other recommendations. -- J.W.
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10-11-2003, 01:02 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Playing Frisbe with an XP cd with my wall.
Distribution: Red Hat 8.0, Slackware 9.0
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Opening files and learning how to navigate thru the file system as !!!!NORMAL USER!!!! is what I have found to be the best way to learn for me atleast. 
and here is the Rute link: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz
Last edited by arioch; 10-11-2003 at 01:03 AM.
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