It's hard to give a helpful answer to this kind of question, mostly because
you don't say what you would like, ultimately, to be able to do with Linux.
For example, if you want to use linux on the desktop, as a workstation,
you'll want to spend some time soon getting X Window working, because most
of the apps you'll want to run are gui-based. On the other hand, if you
mainly want to run a Web server for your office's LAN, you don't urgently
need X, sepecially if you intend to manage the system remotely. You also
don't say anything about the capabilities of the hardware, and that too
affects the advice I (and probalby others) would give you.
As to finding help, there is, alas, no neat interface for the HowTos and
minis. You might find it more convenient to access them online at the Linux
Documentation Project (at least once you have a gui-based Web browser
available to you) -- the presentation is a bit slicker than the text file
versions and the online HowTos and minis are usually more up-to-date than
what Slackware ships.
For general Linux and UNIX knowledge, there are a lot of books around. I've
seen the O'Reilly Linux books praised a lot, though I haven't read them
myself, and for a more technical introduction to UNIX, I like _Essential
System Administration_ (Aeleen Frisch; O'Reilly, 1995, 2e).
Foer getting information about commands that relate to specific subjects,
there is the command "apropos". I've never found it to be all that useful,
but I've seen others praise it, so you should try it and decide for
yourself. ("man apropos" for the details)
At 01:46 PM 4/5/99 -0700, Hansen, Carl wrote:
>a friend gave me slackware 3.6 which I've installed on my D:\ drive, oops
>my hdb1 drive. I got farther than I thought I would with everything going
>smoothly. Now I wonder what is the next step I should tackle? I've learned
>some basic commands for looking around, adding users, multiple logins, etc.
>I don't know if I should jump into xwindows right away. Advice? I found the
>man command helpful but not knowing all the commands it's hard to find help
>when not sure of the question. Is there a similar way to access how to
>files? is there a list of all the commands and their swithches? It would
>be nice to type how to and a subject and get a file displayed but I don't
>think it would work.
>Thanks
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