Need some direction on linux

[mefrmdelhi]

Hi guys,
I have just started exploring linux on Debian OS. Till now I was using windows Operating System. Now I came across with u know lots of shell commands like chmod, chown, chgrp, mount, umount etc.

Still I don't have much knowledge about the scope of linux/unix and areas where I should focus on. I am a J2EE programmer and I was just curious in exploring java technologies on it. But I think now I should go more into that beside just using java on it.

Can you guys give me some direction, some specific areas where I should concentrate more on. Any tutorial or stuff on it would be higly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

- Naseem

[techieMoe]

Welcome. This thread should give you a good foundation to start with:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ead-first.html

For Java development, I recommend you take a look at the Eclipse IDE from IBM:

http://www.eclipse.org

It's free and in my experience very nice. It also works on multiple OS platforms. Sun's competitor is Netbeans, which you can get here:

http://java.sun.com

[antidrugue]

Perhaps you are already passed that point, but a Unix command line tutorial is always a start :
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

Then I'm sure that you'll find the Debian Quick Reference manual very useful :
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/

And finally a quick guide on how to install stuff on Debian :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/344058-post4.html

As for Java, you minimally only need Sun's Java JDK and any text editor you like.

[mefrmdelhi]

Thanks to both...

These pointers are really very good. In the mean while I will read them and report you back if found some difficulty.

Thanks once again

Naseem