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Paladin9

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« on: 26 February 2004, 08:15 »
Does anyone know of an online guide, tutorial, bible, class, whatever, that teaches someone how to use unix or linux? I want to learn a lot but it is hard to learn much. What I know about unix and linux took me a while to learn. At my college, the only computer classes there teach using fucking windows, nothing else. Is there any free guide that teaches someone how to use unix? I do not just mean a quick guide to some unix commands or something crappy like that. I mean a full on tutorial that teaches it like a class. How did you people learn what you know?
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« Reply #1 on: 26 February 2004, 10:05 »
I dicked around with it a lot.

anything so complex it requires classes to learn is too complex
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« Reply #2 on: 26 February 2004, 10:06 »
I learned a lot from reading this quick tutorial:
http://unix.t-a-y-l-o-r.com/
(commands)

and reading how-tos and FAQs for everything that interested me:
http://www.tldp.org/

and asking a lot of questions here and elsewhere.

It helps that I was very familiar with Windows and DOS and networking before I started.

Read everything.  Install some distros and bang away.

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« Reply #3 on: 26 February 2004, 10:21 »
I have been learning unix by dicking around with linux and osx for some time now, and I am learning stuff. Its just that I want to learn more, and a lot faster too.
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« Reply #4 on: 26 February 2004, 11:04 »
Get yourself a Barnes&Noble discount card, and go shopping!
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« Reply #5 on: 26 February 2004, 22:17 »
I was hoping not to pay anything...
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« Reply #6 on: 26 February 2004, 22:30 »
Well, I have to say that TLDP has helped me out a hella lot. It's "the fucking manual" everybody refers to when helping people with Linux. And it doesn't cost a dime.

EDIT: also don't underestimate help forums like http://www.linuxiso.org/forums  ;)

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« Reply #7 on: 27 February 2004, 01:57 »
My BSOD gallery
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« Reply #8 on: 27 February 2004, 02:23 »
Worker's got the right idea.

Hit up your local libraries. If you're in college, get books from the university library
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« Reply #9 on: 27 February 2004, 02:44 »
I guess I am doing alright in Linux, because I almost killed myself reading the beginner's course at linux.org.  Like reading "Windows 95 for Dummies".

The books I keep right next to my computer at work:
"Unix: In a Nutshell" (O'Reilly with a lemur or something)
"Learning the Unix Operating System" (O'Reilly with an owl)
"Learning the bash Shell" (O'Reilly with a fish)
"Using csh & tcsh" (O'Reilly with a duck)

As you can see, O'Reilly is pretty good.  There's Linux specific books out there, but they tend to be distro-specific.  Learn the basics and hack away.

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« Reply #10 on: 27 February 2004, 03:07 »
Another good one is Email Snooping by O'Really
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