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[Chris Bia]

No. begin with slackware without xserver. So, in this way, try to do all
normal operations.... in 4-5 months you'll learn a lot of things.

:-)

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:02 PM, steve <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

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> Phil Bieber wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 14:31, Steve Brettell <sbrettell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'm very new to Linux, and frankly, can't afford the price of the books
> I've
> >> found in the bookstores.  So I'm leeching off the interwebs.  I don't
> have
> >> much to contribute right now, unless questions that bring good answers
> are a
> >> contribution.
> >>
> >> That said, is there any kind of a tutorial about using the terminal
> >> effectively?  It looks to me like this is the heart of Linux country.
> >>
> >> I've looked at lists of terms, etc, but that doesn't look like the
> answer.
> >> There's a lot there, and I'd like to start down that path, but need LOTS
> of
> >> bread crumbs.
> >>
> >> SteveB
> > Hey Steve!
> > Try it this way:
> > Start doing stuff from the GUI and then gradually look for ways to do
> > it on the command line. That way, you can start exploring and then
> > gradually dig deeper and deeper into the system. Thats the way I did
> > it, and I'm still doing it!
> >
> > Cheers & have a nice weekend!
> >
> > Phil Bieber
>
> from my experience, the best way to learn about a command is to use man
> followed by the command you want to know about.   for example  man ls
> or man top.  A bunch of useful information us already included right in
> the distro.
>
>
>
> - --
> Steve Reilly
>
> http://reillyblog.com
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