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Justin
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 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2025 6:44 am Post subject: Linux Noob Getting Started looking for some step-by-step |
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I'm basically looking for some good references (whether by book, or online) that will effectively show me hot to run Linux as I do Winduh's .
I'm pretty advanced in terms of my WinDuh's skills, as in regedit, bat files, Windows networking, and a bunch of other stuff too
Preferably to something like RedHat/CentOS, or maybe Fedora Core.
Help is appreciated.
The idea here is for me to understand what I'm doing here, you see just getting googling a how-to to get such and such thing working isn't enough, I have to understand what the commands actually do instead of mindlessly typing/copying commands.
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| Spelling counts, too. lol.
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^^^And so does capitalization, something you won't be used to.
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Justin -- Welcome to the LUG, Glad to have you here!!
In addition to the above books and web sites, I like The Linux Bible and the Linux Phrasebook. There are a lot of newbie-type tutorial sites in the net - Although it won't necessarily help you out (because it's Debian) if you change your mind about Red Hat/Fedora, I like Keith Parkansky's site for Debian stuff Clik 
| aboutdebian.com wrote: | Why Not Red Hat ?
Red Hat is in a tough spot. Most of their revenue streams are based on sales, support, and training while the open nature of Linux has resulted in thousands of freely-available Linux resources on the Web. Their survival depends on having a product that is proprietary enough to make you dependent upon them for upgrades and support. And now that they are a publically-held company they are under pressure to meet the expectations of Wall Street analysts for revenue growth and cash flows every quarter. (Did you think it was just a coincidence that they churned out new versions at an average of two a year?) In time, Red Hat's dominance will likely kill off smaller commercial distributions like Mandrake and TurboLinux and dealing with Red Hat will be no different than dealing with Microsoft. |
. When I used his site for Debian Woody, he was very detailed in his explanations of what you were doing and why . I still go back there every so often for different things I want to find out about.
| aboutdebian.com wrote: | Why Us ?
First of all, No Advertising! With so many sites out there being so cluttered with banner and pop-up ads that it's down-right painful to use them, we wanted to keep your Linux learning experience free of such distractions. As an alternative, we have chosen to use Amazon book links and sell Debian discs and gear to try and raise the funds necessary to keep this site operating. We feel this approach offers a win-win situation in which we raise operating revenue and you get some great books, software, etc. in the process.
Secondly, Linux resources tend to fall into two categories; those for newbies that cover the basics but never get into the "fun stuff" like servers and firewalls, and those that do get into the fun stuff but assume the reader has a lot of experience with Linux.
We take the middle ground here, "fun stuff for newbies" if you will. We feel the best way to learn is by doing. So after covering the basics on the Linux Basics page, and getting a system up and running on the Installation and Packages pages, we dive right into the fun stuff. When you learn by doing and then buy some Linux books you'll better understand what's being presented and better appreciate the depth of the material. |
I used to have about 10 or 15 other sites marked that were pretty much distro-neutral, but that was a few crashes ago  .
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