[TriLUG] Linux Newbie Resources

[Michael Bowman]

Oreilly has a great reference for commands that I always refer people to.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/

Cheers,
-Michael

Roy Vestal wrote:

>Thanks for this D. It is a great place to start. But since the original post
>asked about websites and such, I thought I'd post a simple list to help:
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>http://www.linux.org - The home of Linux, with some basic information and
>links on a multitude of Linux distributions and some documentation. There is
>even a generic "Getting Started with Linux - Beginner's Course" under the
>courses link.
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>http://www.tldp.org - The Linux Documentation Project. - Pretty much the
>place for documentation on your favorite software. Great place to look for
>HowTo's. In fact, this is my FAVORITE place to start looking for any HowTo.
>I found the HowTo on building my first Beowulf cluster (long ago in RHL 5.1
>land).
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>http://www.justlinux.com/ - I've poked around in here before. You should be
>able to find some basics here as well.
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>As for distros, the big "3" (at least in my book) are:
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>http://fedora.redhat.com - Home of Fedora (Red Hat community based distro).
>I do run Fedora Core primarily. This is an RPM based distribution that is
>the "replacement" (term used loosely) for Red Hat consumer Linux.
>
>http://mandrake-linux.com - Home of Mandrake Linux. I've not tried Mandrake
>since 7.x so I'm not an authority on it, but I do know that quite a few of
>our fellow triluggers run Mandrake so you should be able to get excellent
>help here. This is also an RPM based distribution.
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>http://debian.org - Home of Debian GNU/Linux. This distribution is a deb/apt
>based distribution. I've used this distribution quite often and have been
>pleased with it. But as it is a little different in configuration file
>location and is not RPM based it's not as easy for me to use than Fedora.
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>There are a few that have been mentioned that are CD based, aka "Live CD"s,
>you just run them from the CD, no installation needed. I would recommend
>downloading one of these and playing with linux in general before you
>actually try installing one.
>
>Knoppix is one - It is debian based and uses KDE as the GUI. This site
>includes a "tutorial". http://www.knoppix.net/
>The unofficial Fedora Live CD - ftp://ftp3.tnc.edu.tw/Fedora/live-cd/ - I
>haven't played with it, and I believe the primary language is Korean.
>Mandrake Move - A Mandrake Linux "Live CD". -
>http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#move
>
>I hope this helps you get started in the wonderful world of Linux.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "D. McLamb" <dmclamb at gmail.com>
>To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 3:39 PM
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux Newbie Resources
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>>Also from the Linux Documentation Project, check out the Introduction to
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>>http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
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>>In my experience, this will give you enough information to start
>>asking yourself more questions about specific areas that interest you
>>so you can then research those questions.
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>>Good luck!
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>>Cheers.
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>>D. McLamb
>>dmclamb at gmail.com
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