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Don't learn Ubuntu from a book, that's my advice. Ubuntu is a fast-moving distro with new releases every 6 months. A book from 2008, for example, might be referring to the 8.10 release, which is already obsolete.
Sounds like you want to learn linux instead of ubuntu...
There are a few guided tours of the linux filesystem... I'd recommend going through them step by step in terminal just to familiarize yourself with the BASH commands...
but anyway, here is a decent blog that explains it very quickly...
Yea, Ubuntu moves far too fast for a good manual to make it into book form. Personally I learned most stuff about commands from man pages in the terminal.
The best way to learn is to use the system. For a good reference on the directory tree, i reccomend www.linuxcommand.org
. It's taught me everything i know about the command line and it has a good page on the directory structure as well. and its written in a way that everyone can understand it, no unexplained technical jibber-jabber.
Also, check out the Wiki that Snowpine posted a link to. it's a wealth of information
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Ubuntu is a fast-moving distro with new releases every 6 months. A book from 2008, for example, might be referring to the 8.10 release, which is already obsolete.
