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Have tried numerous live CD's recently and been very impressed with how things have come on over the years since the old UNIX days (didn't dabble much with the OS ...
  1. 03-05-2007 #1
    ronnie6
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    Good 'newbie' reading material

    Have tried numerous live CD's recently and been very impressed with how things have come on over the years since the old UNIX days (didn't dabble much with the OS then but did write some Foxbase apps - ahh, those were the days) and thought I'd have another crack at dumping Windoze. However, rather than bore you with 'newbie' type questions, can anybody recommend a good 'starter' book which covers the basics to bring me up to speed. I've trawled around and Amazon, for example, has loads of stuff but experience has taught me that a recommendation is usually worth far more than publicity blurb. Any help would be most appreciated.
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    Welcome to the forums, ronnie6

    The first link is a good resource for learning commands. The second and third links are good online books you can read for free:

    http://www.linuxcommand.org/

    http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html

    http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

    Don't hesitate to start a new thread if you should have other questions.

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  3. 03-06-2007 #3
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    Many thanks Ozar, that should keep me going for a while.
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    You should try http://tldp.org/

    This is what I was going to post
    Last edited by tuxv; 03-06-2007 at 02:40 PM. Reason: added the link and removed the crap
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    Quote Originally Posted by tuxv
    Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply.
    Eh ? not sure I understand that one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tuxv
    You should try http://tldp.org/

    This is what I was going to post
    Ooh yes, that's a good one. Many thanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronnie6
    Eh ? not sure I understand that one.
    Sorry, http://tldp.org/

    This is the link I posted in my above post. Some how it didn't appear
    There's lot of good information for Linux newbies.
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    There's loads of info available out there. Depends what your looking for. I uploaded a Linux document onto rapidshare, here's the link (I don't know where I found it but it gives a complete overview of Linux)

    <snip>

    Enjoy,

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tim_Wright
    There's loads of info available out there. Depends what your looking for. I uploaded a Linux document onto rapidshare, here's the link (I don't know where I found it but it gives a complete overview of Linux)

    <snip>

    Enjoy,

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    Do you have the same problem as me with link posting, because I don't think the link is called

    <snip>
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    Oops sorry ozar didnt see the information on the bottom until now

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    Sorry again
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