[Cialug] New Linux User orientation?

[Brandon Griffis]

Free online Linux sys-admin manual:
RUTE: http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

It's rather old, but it's also almost entirely about command line so it's
all basically the same.  Just skip over the part about RPMs.

-B

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Morris Dovey <mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:

> Matt Breitbach wrote:
>
>> So I'm foraying into the linux world hot and heavy.
>>
>> I'd love to find some good resources for new linux users - I don't need to
>> know how to use GIMP, I don't need to know how to tweak the user
>> interface,
>> I need to know the meat and potatoes of Linux.  Mounts, permissions, file
>> sharing, user management, etc.
>>
>> Anyone know of a good book or site that covers this information without
>> going into extra crap that I don't need?
>>
>
> It'd help people to help you if you told from whence you come into the
> Linux world...
>
> I have an old copy of "Linux in a nutshell" ISBN:1-56592-167-4 (O'Reilly)
> that provides a large serving of the meat and potatoes you've asked for.
>
> For a bit (a /big/ bit, actually) more depth, I've resorted to "Advanced
> Programming in the UNIX Environment" ISBN:0-201-563-17-7 (Addison Wesley).
>
> What constitutes "extra crap" depends very much on the specifics of what
> you'll be doing, and at what level - and you haven't provided any clues in
> that direction, either.
>
>
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