Paul Kraus wrote: > Is there any good documents, books, or pdf?s (preferably free and > downloadable) that will help me learn linux quickly? I don?t need all > the unix background or this is how tho mouse works crap. I am a > systems admin for NT and 2000 I just want to learn linux. The > documentation that came with software is very nice but I want to print > it and I don?t want to have to print it page by page. Thanks
Well, maybe not yet. ;-) I am developing a website, WikiLearn, which I hope will address this issue. See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn and follow the AboutThesePages link -- read the "Goals" and "Beginner and Reminder Pages" sections. You won't find much of use yet, but you're welcome to look. Even more, you (and everybody) are welcome to record your learning experiences there. I do ask that you register at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration. The registration procedure is not onerous. You enter your name, your email address, and the country you're from, and pick a password and a WikiName (username for TWiki, in UpperCamelCase). WikiLearn is indexed on Google, but I haven't quite pinpointed the update cycle (it may be one to two months). There is a search engine on WikiLearn, but I like Google better if I think that what I'm looking for is old enough to have been indexed by Google. Search Google using a query like [site:twiki.org <searchterms>]. I'd like to move WikiLearn to its own site, and I have an approved project on SourceForge. If anyone with Perl, web administration, HTML, or bash scripting experience wants to help (or wants to get experience), let me know -- I have a list of ToDos on my personal TWiki that I can move to WikiLearn (and update). This includes things like setting up TWiki (I've now done it three times, but not very well on SourceForge), writing some scripts to aid in that process (things like adding webs, setting permissions, and local and remote using ssh and rsync), setting up the email notification and statistics (and fixing the statistics script), and converting the (HTML) templates that are used on my home TWiki to the new style used with the last two releases of TWiki. Randy Kramer PS: I guess my alternative answer might be "there is no quick way to learn Linux". It's not entirely true, and it depends on your objectives. I tried to move to Linux about 18 months ago with the idea of learning it (and Perl, C++, make, CVS, Python, etc.) very quickly. (After all, I basically minored in computer science in school (while earning a BSEE degree). (They didn't officially have a computer science minor, but, IIRC, I took three computer hardware courses and seven computer software courses.) Since then, I've managed electrical / process control (computer) projects for more years than I want to admit, while using computerized project management tools (and writing them on an ad hoc basis, mostly in dos/Windows -- TurboPascal, DataStar ;-) , dBase, AskSam, Paradox, Access, Visual Basic). I'm embarrassed to admit I have not made very much progress. Eventually I bit the bullet and decided I would have to dig in and learn Linux (and Perl, C++, make, CVS, Python, etc.) the slow way. But, I'd like to blaze a path for the next person. WikiLearn will be the tool to blaze the path. PPS: I signed up for a free online couse in Linux called Basic Linux Training. It seems fairly useful so far. See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/BltBasicLinuxTraining.
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