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I have seen lot of questions like
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1) Get the good Linux book First you need to learn some basis of Linux such as what is Linux, How it is different than the Windows, How Linux works, Users ... etc Do we have Free Good Linux books around ? Yup we do have here is small but good list: * Unix for the Beginning Mage a short book that teaches the very basics to learning the Linux as well as other UNIX like OS. Highly recommended. Download from http://dl.cyberciti.biz/?w=ubm * LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition- Rute is a technical reference and teaching tool for new GNU/Linux users as well as advanced administrators. Download from http://linux.2038bug.com/rute-home.html. * Knowing Knoppix - a book for Knoppix beginners in PDF format. http://www.pjls16812.pwp.blueyonder....pix/index.html 2) Get subject-specific help Along with this book, get very good and in depth coverage of Linux tutorial and how-tos from Linux Documentation project, Visit online http://tldp.org 3) Read Distribution docs Your distribution itself has documentation. It can be found at distributions web site. Debian Linux: http://www.debian.org/doc/ Gentoo Linux: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml Fedora Linux: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ But wait most of these documentation also installed in /usr/share/doc/ directory. Just browse them. 4) Learn to read man and info page Are you stuck somewhere? Don't know which command to use. Try following commands: whatis : display short descriptions of command. Code:
whatis ls Code:
man -k printf Code:
man ls man date info vi Visit http://www.google.com/linux and type your problem to get answer. 90% of your problem will be solved by this method. 6)Join Linux & Opensource communities online, Linux forum such as this one. You can also join Linux User group located at Google (http://groups.google.co.in/grphp?hl=en&tab=wg&q=) and start posting or search for help. Please read How To Ask Questions The Smart Way - This guide will teach you how to ask questions in a way that is likely to get you answer 7)Purchase some good Linux books Check out http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ - Information on a large collection of Linux and programming books available online. Most of these books can be downloaded free of charge and http://www.maththinking.com/boat/unixBooksIndex.html If anyone knows some other good resources please share will all of us
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Advanced Linux Programming (PDF): http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/ Slackware Linux book Project: http://www.slackbook.org/ |
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