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[Keizen]

Hi Guys
Just like to say that i am going to unfortunately be pestering the forum alot as i have 3 months to become comfortable with Linux as its my bread and butter gone if i dont. I humble ask that you indulge me if ask any stupid questions.
ll help take the edge off
Hey i do agree with the request for a jokes thread. Will take the edge off during a hectic day.

Thanks in advance to all who offer to share their knowledge with me. Kudos

[oz]

Welcome to the forums... hope you will enjoy running Linux!

[Keizen]

Thanks Oz appreciated

[hazel]

Hi Guys
Just like to say that i am going to unfortunately be pestering the forum alot as i have 3 months to become comfortable with Linux as its my bread and butter gone if i dont. I humble ask that you indulge me if ask any stupid questions.

Three months should be ample. And there's no such thing as a stupid question.

[jayd512]

Hi Keizen! Welcome to LinuxForums!

The only stupid question is the one that isn't asked!
Enjoy your time here on the boards!

[L4Linux]

Hi Guys
Thanks in advance to all who offer to share their knowledge with me. Kudos

Welcome to the forums Keizen!

Since you need to learn a lot and fast, replace Kudos with sudo

[Freston]

Welcome to the forums!

Making Linux your livelihood in three months?

It seems to me, you will want to structure your learning and add a little discipline to your approach. I may be kicking in an open door here, but assume you know nothing about 'computers'. Really, the biggest mistake people make is that they fancy themselves quite the wizard as far as computers (read: Windows) are concerned, so that they feel they don't need to learn the basics anymore. Easy things such as switching drives, establishing a connection, setting an IP-address, installing applications, managing permissions, what have you??

The *nix family of operating systems, of which Linux is just one example, is a line that traces its roots back to well before the time of the Disk Operating System. Things are designed with other ends in mind, and things work differently. One might argue the *nix system is very flexible and designed to integrate well into a network. On the other hand, it is more designed from the point of view of someone who knows what he wants and knows how to make it happen.
A lot is done to get the system easier for new users, and things are noticeably improving on that area. For example, my mother runs Linux now for well over two years and the only problem she has had in that period was traceable to an administrative error on the part of her ISP



But seeing as how you are not so much a consumer who's main concern is how to view Youtube vids but rather you want to learn how the system works from an admin perspective, you may be more interested in Bash, cups, Iptables, X.org, ssh, sshfs, nfs, samba, dhcpcd, and things like that. I dunno. It depends on what your focus is. Embedded? Networking? Support? Programming? Web applications?

I dunno, I've found it best to just set goals for myself. Things like: by tomorrow I can chroot into another device, by the next day I have a FTP server accessible through the intertubes (with login), and I can route certain ports to certain machines. All beginning is difficult, but after a while it becomes clear and logical how it all works. Ozar (posted above) has an excellent link in his sig. Start there.

And well, don't be shy Ask...

[Hal343]

Welcome to the forums. Checking the answers to questions in different threads on the forums will give you a lot of tips. Make a text file of some kind and copy interesting answers to it, so you can investigate further later, and in time, it all begins to make sense. The filesystem is a good place to explore and get familiar with, because most of what you need to know has a file associated with it. In linux everything is a file.

[hazel]

One thing I found useful in my early days with Linux was to go through the initialisation scripts systematically. On another console I would look at the man pages for each command to find out what they did; often I had a third console open for cross-references or experiments. If there was a pipeline with grep and/or awk stuff, I would try it out at the console, adding each segment in turn to see what the output was. I learned a lot that way. The HOWTOs at the Linux Documentation Project are useful too.

[Keizen]

Hi There

Thanks came to the conclusion the the Linux help files are the Bomb- so no worries.

Really appreciate the advise.

Gracias