Re: First day with Ubuntu - now what?
- From: ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin)
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:05:33 -0600
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup uk.comp.os.linux, in article
<RIO5l.68203$cx7.48723@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Will Kemp wrote:
Mark Hobley wrote:
Andy <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd like to learn more, but as a noob to Linux there seem to be so
many places to start that I don't know which are okay and which are
not.
Then there is also the Linux Documentation Project - 35 books on line
for free download, plus over 450 HOWTOs and mini-howtos covering many
different subjects. Start at http://tldp.org/guides.html - the howtos
can be found at http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/
You may also want a system administration book. Again, I would look
for an "Unleashed" title, but browse through the books and see what
you can
I'm not sure how much specific good a system administration book would
be for Ubuntu. Concepts perhaps, but Ubuntu differs quite significantly
from a run-of-the-mill *nix.
After i first installed Linux on my laptop, back in 95, i bought a
generic Unix book (there may not even have been any *Linux* books in
those days)
Look for "Linux Unleashed" which featured the then new SlackWare Linux.
It was in it's second edition by mid-96, right along with the first
edition of Red Hat Linux Unleashed (complete with a CD with a GPL
version of 3.0.3 picasso).
It helped a lot with getting the general hang of it, even though it
wasn't Linux-specific.
By in large, most of the stuff was command line, and the Linux family
of command line stuff (which was, after all Gnu) followed *nix fairly
closely - you just had to remember if this was AT&T System mumble, or
BSD. That drove me nuts faster than the different warts in Linux.
That was Slackware and getting XWindow working was a bit of a challenge
(not made any easier by only having 4MB RAM [it doesn't seem possible
now]) - and without that book i doubt i could have managed it.
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/
drwxr-xr-x 5 (?) users 4096 Dec 19 2003 MCC
drwxr-xr-x 4 (?) users 4096 May 24 2002 debian
drwxr-xr-x 7 (?) users 4096 Dec 19 2003 slackware
drwxr-xr-x 5 (?) users 4096 Sep 8 2003 sls
drwxr-xr-x 2 (?) users 4096 Dec 19 2003 yggdrasil
ftp> cd MCC
250 CWD command successful
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxr-xr-x 9 (?) users 4096 May 24 2002 1.0+
drwxr-xr-x 2 (?) users 4096 May 24 2002 dos-utils
drwxr-xr-x 2 (?) users 4096 Dec 19 2003 tmp
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> cd ../slackware
250 CWD command successful
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxr-xr-x 59 (?) users 4096 Dec 19 2003 1.1.2
drwxr-xr-x 17 (?) users 4096 May 24 2002 2.1
drwxr-xr-x 6 (?) users 4096 Oct 3 2003 3.0
drwxr-xr-x 15 (?) users 4096 May 24 2002 3.1
drwxr-xr-x 13 (?) users 4096 Dec 19 2003 3.9
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> cd ../sls
250 CWD command successful
ftp> dir
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
drwxr-xr-x 31 (?) users 4096 Sep 8 2003 1.03
drwxr-xr-x 34 (?) users 4096 May 24 2002 1.05
-rw-r--r-- 1 (?) users 379 Sep 8 2003 README-1.03
drwxr-xr-x 3 (?) users 4096 Sep 8 2003 linux
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>
You were looking for... all 54 floppies of Slack 1.1.2, or all 30
of SoftLandingSystems 1.03? (1.05 took 31 floppies.)
Old guy
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