Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I think quality/useful documentation should cover at least >> What When Why >> Anyone know of a documentation project with that POV? > Richard, > . > . > Many years ago Eric Harrison explained linux to me: it has little tools > each doing a single, specific task that is easy to understand and learn. > However, there are thousands of these little tools which makes learning and > understanding more difficult. > > HTH, > > Rich > Rich, and the rest of us,
A coworker of mine, a long time ago, at a shipyard to the north, put it this way: "You have to know UNIX to learn UNIX." What he was trying to say is learn a little at a time. One of the first best ways to learn UNIX/LINUX is to learn the command "man" or now the sometimes more informative "info" command. One course in Linux administration I took had use learn the command in /usr/bin/ directory. At least it is a starting place. Every once in a while I find a reference to a command I do not know. I use man or info or Google to find out what it does and sometimes even try the command out, if I am brave enough. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
