I just gave the Bash Shell Basics tutorial a bit of an overhaul, expanding it with a largish section on documentation and help along with a handy chart with some keyboard shortcuts. Any comments/suggestions are very much appreciated.

You really ought to give command/filename tab-completion a mention. IMO it's the most significant improvement to usage to ever happen to the cli.
Perhaps an example to get the point across such as

mkdir adirectorywithareallylongandsillyname
cd adir<TAB><ENTER>

(I'm sure you can come up with a better one than that though. )

Covered that here:

/home/gene/websites/LinuxAdventures/sysadmin/bash2.html

Hi,

2handband, a little history that users will find interesting: Church of the SubGenius is the SlackMasters Place. I meant to bring this to your attention a while back. Intro does mention Tux but to present Bob would be a plus for new Slackware users.

Just a heads up!

BTW, new link reference in Slackware®-Links: section Slackware Help;
Tutorials:
Slackware Intro+ Slackware Configuration <- Great Newbie tutorial + This tutorial is not complete at this time.' + New tutorials for installing and configuring Slack <- Original Thread

Just added a new tutorial on printer setup using sustem-config-printer:

http://genek.net/LinuxAdventures/ins...p/printer.html

Any suggestions are welcome as always, but please bear in mind that this is not a tutorial on advanced print management; it's only purpose is to help noobs get their printers working.

Thanks for the link, Gary!

I did some work on the desktop setup tutorials. There are two of them now; one for KDE 4.4 (which is in 13.1) and one for KDE 4.5, which will almost certainly be in the next Slackware release. I'm quite proud of these; I think they make for a very thorough introduction to the features and capabilities of the KDE desktop... many of which most users don't even realize are there. The two tutorials share a common introductory page:

http://genek.net/LinuxAdventures/ins...p/desktop.html

I also, with some regret, pulled the KDE 3.5 tutorial. Fact is, Debian Lenny will be oldstable in a matter of months, and I think it's the last KDE 3.x holdout... at least amongst major distros. In addition to that, I've also made the decision to start slowly taking down all of the Debian-based tutorials and removing the Debian references. Debian was the first Linux I ever really fell in love with and I used it for a long time, but I have a limited amount of leisure to work on these tutorials and I don't have time to write new tutorials as well as keep the existing ones current for two distros, one of which I no longer use. I held out for awhile because I was hoping to find a contributor to take over the Debian stuff, but it's become apparent that this is not forthcoming.

Look for a new tutorial on file permissions soon.

Hi,

I would like to suggest that you give some thought to the removal of KDE 3.5. There are people who still use it and with new users will continue to be introduced to KDE 3.5 on older Slackware versions.

I can understand the reasoning to go with the newer versions but Slackware users are still working & introducing users world wide to the earlier Slackware versions. Hardware will restrict most user from using the latest stable or even '-current'.

I'll give it some thought... at the very least, it needs some revision before it goes back up.

Actually, let me just throw this out on the table. How many would see value in keeping an in-depth KDE 3.5 tutorial available? Either respond here or PM me.

Not really a tutorial, but I did a lengthy blog post on the state of Linux on the desktop if anyone is interested.

http://genek.net/wordpress

Nice piece. Typo in "KDE 4.6 RC2".

I really like your site Gene, I've been converting my friends from windows to linux with Ubuntu for a while now, your page will help me lure them into slackware. muhaha (evil laugh)

anyway, on your tutorial, in "getting ready", you say:

maybe they changed it since you were last there, but if you go to store.slackware.com again, you'll see a donate button on the left hand side, and you can choose how much you want to donate (as little as a dollar I think). Hope this helps you :]

Hey, thanks. BTW, instead of Ubuntu's buggy poopware, have you checked out SimplyMepis, OpenSUSE, or Chakra? Very noob-friendly, but not as explosion-prone as Ubuntu.

no problem
I've been reading about OpenSUSE... I really ought to download it and give it a try. How's the package manager? (compared to APT?)

It works all right, although it's a little overbuilt. I'm trying Salix right now... it's a really cool distro. It's based on Slackware, but perhaps a little less intimidating for newcomers.