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[Patrick Asselman]

 On Tue, 1 May 2012 11:45:42 -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:02 PM, scott  wrote:
>
>> On 04/30/2012 06:18 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/30/2012 05:03 PM, Kevin OGorman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ric Moore  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 04/30/2012 04:14 PM, Doug wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/30/2012 03:45 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bahn, Nathan wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please accept this apology for being too vague. Im
>>>>>>>> looking for a
>>>>>>>> good Linux (C.L.I.) instruction manual -- preferably
>>>>>>>> one with good
>>>>>>>> exercises to complete. I ask this because Im tired of
>>>>>>>> being too
>>>>>>>> dependent upon the G.U.I.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Try to find something here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nils
>>>>>> There are some bash programming texts on the Net. One
>>>>>> humongous
>>>>>> one is "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide" by Mendel Cooper
>>>>>> (About 700 pages
>>>>>> altogether!) and there is an OReilly freebie, "bash Pocket
>>>>>> Reference" by
>>>>>> Arnold Robbins. (At least I think it was free--if not, its
>>>>>> very cheap.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> An excellent command reference is another OReilly book that
>>>>>> youll have
>>>>>> to buy--"Linux in a Nutshell--A Desktop Quick Reference" by
>>>>>> Siever,
>>>>>> Figgins,
>>>>>> Love and Robbins. Its been published in successive editions
>>>>>> since 1997;
>>>>>> I have the sixth edition of 2009. This is a real paper
>>>>>> book, 900 pages.
>>>>>> Its the best I ever spent on Linux! I use it at least
>>>>>> once a week.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you could find an old RedHat or SuSE Linux manual (or
>>>>>> pair) from around
>>>>>> 2000 or earlier, before everything got GUI-fied, there was
>>>>>> some useful
>>>>>> stuff there
>>>>>> that is not so easy to locate anymore. If theres a nearby
>>>>>> Linux club,
>>>>>> somebody
>>>>>> may have one they might give you. I seem to have lost mine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Heh, after they squashed system-v, half of what is in those
>>>>> old RedHat
>>>>> manuals is deader than a doornail. I miss the old days. I had
>>>>> 20 users
>>>>> telneted into our MUD on a 486 with 32 megs of memory, no
>>>>> sweat. You were a
>>>>> weenie if you actually rebooted. I reboot more frequently now
>>>>> that I did
>>>>> with Win3.1  :) Ric
>>>>
>>>> Why?  I reboot the desktop for kernel updates primarily.  My
>>>> laptop
>>>> dual-boots, so you cant blame the system(s) for the frequency
>>>> on that
>>>> machine.
>>>
>>> Back in the day, you could just init 1 then init 5 and save
>>> having to do the reboot. Remember?? heh, then you could proudly
>>> post your uptime in months, or in a few cases years, instead of
>>> days. Ric
>> Then there is always ksplice for those 99.999% uptime servers.
>>
>> http://www.ksplice.com/ [4]
>>
>> Scott
>
> well but oracle bought them. so it wont work for you unless you use
> oracle linux or may be few others.
>  ubuntu is not in that list :-(
>  
>
 What list are you looking at? I found an Ubuntu download link:
 http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/download-ubuntu

 Best regards,
 Patrick Asselman