If you have linux installed then start with Tom's recovery disk and
learn it. That will give you the basics.
Thank
Frank
Brian Chabot wrote:
>
> Hey thanks Norb
>
> Guess I'm just anctious to learn my way around Linux as compared to
> Windows.
>
> I just thought of a question!! Of course the material for learning
> Linux on the net is extensive but, what I have the most difficulty
> learning is after I've installed a particular Linux ver. (RH seems to
> be the most documented and exclusively used by many) is simply getting
> around and knowing where to find files, peripherals, etc. I guess my
> question is what should someone thats starting to learn Linux learn
> first. Ex: how to program in C language, or Unix, or how the Kernel
> works, etc...
>
> PS in guess my epiphany w/ MS windows was learning windows explorer
> and what file ext. meant. .exe or .com or .mp3 or .txt and how they
> apply.
>
> Norbert Cartagena <niccademous@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Tom
> >
> > I'm new to SLUG and I'm just wondering whats all the
> > hardware info for and why most email's don't involve
> helping
> > newbie's w/ basic Linux problems that inevitably arise
> while
> > trying to learn it. By the way I always check
> > Tomshardware.com for the latest trends and reviews of
> > everything related to hardware. He's very reliable and
> > up-to-date concerning motherboards. See ya Brian
> >
>
> Well, do you have any newbie questions? And what do you
> define as a
> newbie question? "How do I set up KPPP?" is probably a good
> newbie
> question compared to most users. What about "How do I set up
> DRI?"
> Setting up your computer to handle 3D graphics, is that
> Newbie? Compared
> to someone like Ed or Derek, heck yeah. Compared to me, for
> example, it
> might be "the next project" or even "Hey, I just did that",
> ! ! so when a
> question comes up on it I either pay lots of attention or
> try to help.
> This floating standard then applies to other things like
> "I'm a newbie
> at GNU/Linux, but not to computers. I want to build a cheap
> GNU/Linux
> box < Note, I am a bit anal on the GNU/LINUX-propper name
> thing, so
> don't mind me.>. Where can I get some cheap parts?" Is this
> a newbie
> question?
> The truth is that to say that this list is ONLY answering
> questions to
> the Linux Newbie would entail us having a list on the Linux
> kernel -
> definitely NOT newbie material. Instead, this list is about
> a revolving
> set of issues in the GNU/Linux system., including everything
> from "Hey,
> how do I get Red Hat to work with Roadrunner" to "I'm having
> a problem
> with GTK+..." (yes, that last one is a newbie question, if
> you're new to
> GTK). to even "Hi. I've been on this list for a while. How
> do I
> recompile the kernel?"
> The point is that this list is NOT exclusively for newb! !
> ies. It is
> actually for the increased flow and expansion of knowledge
> to and of all
> its members. A nice side effect is since that all of us have
> been
> newbies (except maybe for Ed, who keeps telling me his mom
> doesn't
> remember any computer manuals being there at birth, so I
> suppose even
> him), we can answer newbie questions (depending on what
> level of newbies
> we ourselves are), thereby allowing others who before had no
> previous
> knowledge to now begin on the path of attainment of
> knowledge with the
> available resource of years of actual human experience on
> the subject
> matter.
>
> I hope this helped you understand a bit why we discuss what
> we discuss
> :)
>
> Again, if you have any "newbie" questions, ask. We'll try to
> answer, or
> at least point you to the general direction of where you're
> get the
> information.
>
> P.S.
> Don't mind all the grammatical errors... I just woke up
> *yawn*
>
> Norb
>
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