Hi Ya'll Im a Noob to Linux
Being a know-nuttin noob I would like some suggestions on tutorials to learn Linux.
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It really depends on exactly what you're attempting to do with the system(s). If you want a general overview, I would suggest taking a look at some of the "For Dummies" type books, installing Linux on a Virtual Machine and going through the examples listed. It'll really help you out! |
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For the very beginning:
http://www.linuxcommand.org/ After that: http://linux.2038bug.com/rute-home.html |
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Before you get too far along, you may need to tell us more about this/these system(s) that you are going to work on. Also your level of skill in any other OS. Maybe even the use of the server and value of data. What would become of you if this data was lost or the server failed?
Normally a company should provide training but why waste money on training. I suggest a course of some kind. Some are fee based online, some are book based. All set a training goal and test it by some means. You need to pass some course to prove to yourself you have learned it. It would be unwise to put a newbie in charge of a server. You may wish to be very careful. You'd be blamed if your bork it. |
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Personally, I learnt to use Unix around 1991 with a Digital Research CP/M 86 background. The book I used was "The UNIX operating system" by Christian Kaare and a french textbook by Jean-Marie Rifflet (there might be an english translation). Another good book (in French, but again there could be a translation) was one by Christian Pelissier. Other useful books are: The Unix Operating System by Steve Bourne (Addison-Wesley, 1983) The UNIX programming environment by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike (Prentice-Hall, 1984) The site bitsavers.org has some Unix manuals from AT&T, IBM (AIX), HP (HP-UX) and SGI (Irix). On more specific aspects of Linux/Unix, you could have a look at the books published by O'Reilly especially the book on the Bourne Again Shell and the one on sed and awk (useful if you need to write scripts to extract information from log files). For Linux specific aspects, there are online books by the Linux Documentation Project. |
Howdy, my stuff is in my signature.
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You can sit down with as much tutorials and books as you like, but in my experience learning Linux is all about just using it and looking up how to do things when you get stuck. |
Ok thanks for all of the encouraging info. As I found an old POS pc by the trash, took it home, made it work. I'm going to install Linux Mint on it tonight.
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Visit www.distrowatch.com for some distros to try. |
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Have fun with Linux, and good luck to you, Lakedog! :) |
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