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Hello all, I am a techie who has had enuff of Microsoft Windows and am currently trying to teach myself Linux. I have downloaded SuSE 9.0 and I am trying my best to learn the how's, when's, and why's of Linux. Can anyone recommend a good book or manual to get a TRUE LINUX VIRGIN started in the right direction. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks a million.
Hello all, I am a techie who has had enuff of Microsoft Windows and am currently trying to teach myself Linux. I have downloaded SuSE 9.0 and I am trying my best to learn the how's, when's, and why's of Linux. Can anyone recommend a good book or manual to get a TRUE LINUX VIRGIN started in the right direction. Any help or suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks a million.
seriously? The RH online manuals really helped. Then digging through all the MAN pages and HOW-TOs online. I've always found books to be out of date and filled with misinformation (bad editing, I'm sure). The SuSE docs aren't the best... at least in my experience.
Distribution: K/Ubuntu 18.04-14.04, Scientific Linux 6.3-6.4, Android-x86, Pretty much all distros at one point...
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SuSE 9.0,... is that the trial version??? Normally you can't download SuSE (they only recently decided to open source their YAST installation tool).
The best way to learn Linux is to just install it on a machine that is not mission critical for you. Then just play... I would also consider getting a book or reading an online tutorial on command line commands in any of the "unixes." As far a distro for a new user, I really cut my teeth on Mandrake. It tends to be a good distro for the newbie set, but experienced users can get full value as it is not "dumbed-down".
One of the "Dummies" type books even include a version of RedHat 9 or Fedora.
You can install SuSE from their official ftp for free (or download whole content of ftp and install from your local ftp server if u have one). I tried it some time ago. But it misses some copyrighted stuff comparing to a boxed version.
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the FTP works as long as you find a FTP site that has COMPLETE listing of packages. I'd still recommend just shelling out the $ for the discs... as it is faster .
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