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#1 2007-10-03 03:17:55
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Learn Linux System
Coming from a pretty much all windows background I find myself wanting more. Does anyone have good resources to aid me in my quest to learn linux and how it works?
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#2 2007-10-03 03:44:40
- elgatofelix
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#3 2007-10-03 04:00:09
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Re: Learn Linux System
This may not help you much, but I learned by printing out an install guide (I picked debian first at random back in the day, but this applies to any distro), burning a cd, and going from there. I found pretty quickly that any problem I could possibly think of and more was a google away. Before I ran into highly-specialized difficulties, googling "linux howto blah" was always excellent. HOWTOs are the newbie's absolute best friend.
In the early days I also found The Linux Documentation Project to be a massive help (this was before linux forums really caught on). They have a good collection of general HOWTOs there.
As far as arch linux goes, we have a sizable wiki, though again you'll find that with most modern distros.
If you're looking for propaganda, I suggest watching slashdot/digg headlines ;-)
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#4 2007-10-03 11:49:16
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Re: Learn Linux System
theres a sticky here called Useful webpages for linux newcomers
There shouldn't be any reason to learn more editor types than emacs or vi -- mg (1)
[You learn that sarcasm does not often work well in international forums. That is why we avoid it. -- ewaller (arch linux forum moderator)
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#6 2007-10-03 12:18:42
- Misfit138
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Re: Learn Linux System
Check the Arch Linux Beginner's Guide?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide
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#7 2007-10-03 14:39:54
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Re: Learn Linux System
And when you first have your Linux desktop up, don't stop with looking for more/alternative applications.
E.g. try out transmission instead of azureus, or opera instead of firefox. Try out everything for a while (especially WMs).
Keep an eye on the applications that run by the updated list on the arch homepage, and if one looks interesting look at its homepage (etc).
Here's another bash tutorial with some specialized stuff: deadman.org
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#8 2007-10-03 15:20:00
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Re: Learn Linux System
Check this book: http://www.chongluo.com/books/rute/
I've been almost 4 years into Linux and I've always, since the very start said, I will read that book so I can learn linux better. Well here I am I've never read the book and I think I know my way around Linux as much as to say I'm an intermediate-advanced user, not expert yet tough. But eventually I will read the book, since it surely is a must read 
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#9 2007-10-03 22:33:14
- normc
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Re: Learn Linux System
There's a book?
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