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[Roman Y]

Hi CodeCallers. So I've finally got myself a partition with Linux (latest version of ubuntu) and since I don' want to work with something I don't know about I thought I'd ask you for some advice. Mostly where I can learn linux and how to work with it, like books, tutorials that kind of stuff... already have a book on how to use Linux and GNU but I think the book is how to use ONLY any suggestions of material that I should read / watch if I want to go deeper?

thanks in advance.

[WingedPanther]

I usually start by just trying to use the OS. As I run into issues, I look up solutions on google.

[agnl666]

agree with winged panther. it took me three days (the past three) to install ubuntu though before that i had little knowledge of partitioning, and no knowledge of file systems like ntsf or ext2 through4 and a lot of other things. i'v run into tens of problems though i have learned so much.

[Roger]

Also, what are you using your Linux partition for?

[Hignar]

WingedPanther said:

I usually start by just trying to use the OS. As I run into issues, I look up solutions on google.

This.

I learnt everything through just doing my day-to-day tasks with in the OS. If I ran into problems then I hit google or one of the hundereds of linux forums there are out there. From what I can tell most books offering to teach you linux are only really of use if you want to go into system administration. Most things you'll need to do should be fairly straight forward and if you run into a bigger problem then there are several people here who know enough to help out.

[mrlemke]

Familiarize yourself with the terminal as that terminal is more important than your GUI. If you need help on a command or don't know the command you're looking for (but know what you want to do), you should go here:
bash commands - Linux MAN Pages

I like consulting that place to find commands for what I want to do. You can also use "man <command>" to learn more about a particular command.

[Roman Y]

ok guys thanks for the tips.

Roger said:

Also, what are you using your Linux partition for?

not much actually, mainly programming (specielly in C because windows doesn't really have any good C compiler or working environment) and learning about the OS since it's easier to see how processes are handled, structures of OS on Linux than it is on Windows, but I've got a feeling that the farther I go in university the more I'd have to learn about Linux and learn to operate a computer with several OS´s.

Otherwise it's also convenient to have Linux partition if I want to edit or remove some files that Windows would for some reason bitch about.

[agnl666]

i agree about the terminal. learning the terminal is very useful. i find it way quicker and more direct than the gui and i understand what is going on better.