[TriLUG] Good teaching distro?

[Carl Crider]

+++ Linux in a Nutshell ... this book is always nearby.

I'd suggest reviewing some of the ground-up build tutorials over at
www.howtoforge.com

Matt's suggestion of LFS (Linux From Scratch) is a good one. I did an LFS
build a few years
ago, and learned more about the "whys" than in previous years. If you have a
system that she
can tinker with and make mistakes (both intentional & unintentional) on,
then go for it. Before
you know it, you may have another sysadmin in the house. Then you can argue
about money,
AND the proper way to mount an NFS volume.

:)






On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Joel J. Adamson <adamsonj at email.unc.edu>wrote:

> "Paul Bennett" <paul.w.bennett at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My wife has asked me to teach her Linux.
>
> What does this mean?  People have asked me "Do you know Linux?" and I
> don't know what to say.  I usually answer that I know more about using
> Unix-like systems than I did twenty years ago, but I still don't know
> everything.
>
> > She knows one end of a mouse from the other, but is not too
> > comfortable with the ol' command line stuff (yet).
>
> Instead of a particular distro, I would recommend a good book on Unix
> basics.  If what she wants to learn is how to use the command line (or
> the "gist" of the command line) then I would recommend some of the older
> books like Learning the Unix Operating System[1].  IIRC this book is not
> too scarred by the Unix Wars like a lot of other books of the era.
> After reading that, I'd recommend browsing Linux in a Nutshell[2], which
> will give her a good idea of what all the various commands are.  I still
> browse this book regularly.
>
> Joel
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596002619/
>
> [2]  http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154493/
>
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