Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-26 Thread Paul T. McNally
> http://www.datasurge.net/Books/ I had better luck getting the site with a lower case b in books in the URL: http://www.datasurge.net/books/ For me, joining a local linux user group has helped tremendously. If you have successfully installed Potato, you have already learned a chunk, and can no

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-25 Thread I. Tura
The text editor that you will can use without breaking your head it's Easy Editor. Or better, use ae (Anthony's Editor) that it's already installed with the base system. In the first weeks, the directory you'll access more is /etc, where are the configuration files. Dozens of time

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-25 Thread montefin
Brian, Do you have Xwindows up and running? From your Windows background, you'll initially feel more comfortable in X. Oddly enough though, you will learn more faster in the console on the command line. In a way I was lucky that it took me two weeks (and several hardware swaps) to configure X (w

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-25 Thread Ray Percival
As always get the oreilly book :) Go to fatbrain they have 30% off on most new books and the discount code cdidisc will get you greatly reduced shipping. Free on the standard shipping. I put this question out to the list which book would be best? My thought is to start with the latest edition of

Re: Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-25 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Brian Vozza wrote: > Whats up everyone > > I have been a windows programmer for several years...and I am > finally converting over to linux. Only problem is.Dont know where > ta start. Ive managed to install potato on my machine but am > clueles as to w

Brand_Spankin_Newbie

2000-08-25 Thread Brian Vozza
Whats up everyone I have been a windows programmer for several years...and I am finally converting over to linux. Only problem is.Dont know where ta start. Ive managed to install potato on my machine but am clueles as to where to go from here. Are there any good tutorials