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PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2024 1:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The two I have found most helpful to lead NooBs to are the sidux and Ubuntu

But that is only because I found them. There may be others. Some of the links above and few I posted I have not checked in depth. I notice most want to teach the CLI first. Many NooBs won't get past that. I try to get them comfortable with the Desktop first, and how to find their way around, then how to find the real power.



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2024 1:58 am    Post subject: Nice job with this! Reply with quote

Melloe, great topic, this really got people contributing. I have found that The Linux Documentation Project and YoLinux each provide pretty good portals, too.

Outside of the scope of Linux, another really great source of information, some of which can actually be applied in a Linux context is the FreeBSD Handbook, which, like the Gentoo Handbook, is also an outstanding source of information. If you need the GNU specific syntax of something, the Gentoo Handbook would probably be more appropriate, but don't sell the FreeBSD Handbook short. It predates the Gentoo Handbook, probably inspired the Gentoo Handbook, and it is one of the finest sources of free software documentation.

The Slackbook Project, http://www.slackbook.org/, really ought to get included in here too. In this book, for example, you can learn that Slackware was the SECOND Linux distribution in existence, but the FIRST of the survivors, and Debian is the second one. Both of them emerged out of the history of attempting to get SLS Linux working, and coming up with effective modifications and techniques to get it to work. Patrick Volkerding did this with Slackware; Ian Murdock did this with Debian.



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2024 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Of course, then there is this forum....



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2024 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crouse wrote:
Of course, then there is this forum....


yes indeed! Smile



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2024 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Of course, then there is this forum....

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Have to add the training lessons at
http://www.linux.org/lessons/

Good info for the NooB...
But VERY outdated in some details. Sidux general Linux info, and several others here, are much more up to date.



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2024 10:57 am    Post subject: Mandriva Reply with quote

Mandriva documentation in a 340 page PDF
http://neodoc.mandrivalinux.com/publications/

Web Based Documentation General and by version ( categories on left panel )
http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/KB/OfficialDocumentation



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2024 11:14 am    Post subject: Debian Reply with quote

Installation manuals by architecture and Language
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

Debian Documentation listing, general to specific in many forms
an astounding library of documentation
http://www.debian.org/doc/



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