Linux Newbie Im looking for a few good links....

Okay, I am pretty new to linux, and looking for great starter information on things like commands, and applications, and how to get the most from my new linux system, which by the way is Mandrake 10.0 Community. I can't find much help and tips, FAQs, or much of anything to get me started there.....Anyone have any Ideas?

Okay, I am pretty new to linux, and looking for great starter information on things like commands, and applications, and how to get the most from my new linux system, which by the way is Mandrake 10.0 Community.  I can't find much help and tips, FAQs, or much of anything to get me started there.....

 

Anyone have any Ideas?

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There's heaps of info just waiting for you. I've run most every flavor of *nix available. Currently I am playing with Mandrake 10.0 too. I also run debian and freebsd just for kicks.

To get started ... learn a few commandl line essentials:

Here's the One Page Linux Manual that I keep handy. It'll give you some basic command line tips. Try a google on learning linux for some very good tutorial sites.

The cool thing about Linux is that there are numerous programs which do the same thing ... it's up to individual preference. What do you do the most? For starters, get firebird running. I'd then recommend Evolution for your email. Gimp for graphics (i used to be a photoshop pro and now can do most everything from GIMP that I did in photoshop), XChat for irc, GAIM for instant messanger, openoffice for spreadsheets, powerpoint and word processor, K3B for CD burning, Kooka for scanning, Quanta for web development, geez .. there's heaps.

If you have any specific questions, message me or leave a post.

happy linuxing!

hashbang

The Greatest Linux Resource avaliable is....(drum role)Linuxquestions.orgIts a forum purely dedicated to linux, with a large number of users.when you post in the "newbie" section, provided your subject line is clear, and you clearly pose your question along with adiquite information (distro / version / error message / etc etc etc) you will usually find an answer very quickly.i found the forum years ago when i started out, years later im still there asking much much much more compilcated questions, and helping out the newbs, give it a try if and when you run into problems.

Yeah, I remember when I started out with RH7.0 and I had no clue what I was getting into. X wouldn't work with my GeForce 2, so I was stuck in the text interface for a while until i got on the internet on a different computer, got the files, read the documentation, and as soon as X was running and I configured ppp, I asked myself what Iwould be doing most often, got the programs I needed, and read over documentation for everything, or found a *NIX support channel on different IRC hosts. Before six months went by, I had moved onto slackware (and never turned back as far as Linux distros are concerned), compiled a custom kernel to support CD burning and USB Human Interface Devices, and knew everything I needed to do the things I did. Although I ended up ditching KDE and GNOME in favour of GNUstep. If you end up not liking Mandrake (I didn't like it when i tried 10.0), there are other distros as well. True, it's all Linux, but different flavours for different people. Slackware is a good one to use if you need the most from your computer, and is the most UNIX-like Linux available. I also found it to be very educational as well. When I started using slack, I learned so much of what I know now in maybe a week. Anyways, good luck, and hope your experiences with Linux are good. There is literally thousands upon thousands of HOWTOs and FAQs out there. Try computing.net.

Hey Mate,
I just stumbled across another great resource for the beginner (and advanced alike). It's a new Knoppix Users Guide which would be beneficial even if you were running a distro other than Knoppix. You can find it here:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Happy Linuxing!
hashbang

So, if you need tutorials and help
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
but many apps install a "local" documentation, and if you have a problem and you can't use internet try
# cmd man
where cmd is the apps which you need help

if you need packages(RPM on Mdk)
http://www.rpmseek.com/index.html

or other apps
http://freecode.com/

Mdk 10.0 IMHO is a unstable distro, the kernel was one of the first 2.6.x and mdk isn't know to be very stable, try SuSE or FC, they're more stable IMHO


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Okay, I am pretty new to linux, and looking for great starter information on things like commands, and applications, and how to get the most from my new linux system, which by the way is Mandrake 10.0 Community.  I can't find much help and tips, FAQs, or much of anything to get me started there.....

 

Anyone have any Ideas?

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own linux distribution,http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ is a good start.

It is a quick way to study linux distribution.You will found that document at LFS save you time greatly since it seemed that there is no relation between your problems and those document.That is to say,some boring problems will not appeared before you at all if you have read them.

i think Linux From Scratch is overrated.i built a complete linux system from scratch and learned nothing i didnt learn by compiling a few kernels, and the latest version of KDE.you spend about 2 days mindlessly going over the same porcedure....wget Filetar Filecd directorypatch < patch1patch < patch2./configure --prefix=/usr/makemake checkmake installover and over and over and over and over.True, i did end up with a super customised machine whch in a 1.3Ghz athlon booted in just ofer 4 seconds... but still...not as gooder learning experiance as you might think.if customisation is important, go Gentoo.Gentoo has alll the benefits of LFS, but has possably the best Package management system,Portage (a port of BSD's 'ports' system)

Guys - those who have gone a little beyond linux from scratch - try out http://www.yolinux.com/ - one of the best hands on linux setup tutorials site. Nicely divided into section starting from setting up a system (workstation or server) and then proceeds to setting up of individual services & apps/packages from the rpms or source distributions. Covers MTUs (Mail Transport Agents), Apache, DNS, MySQL, NIS, LDAP - more or less all of them...
Have fun

Mandarke users like Penguin Liberation Front - dedicated Mandrake rpm package repository - http://plf.zarb.org/ - this name is even enought

Best to get packages for Mandrake is here:
http://rpm.pbone.net/

It is much better than rpmfind and it practically has everything.

xboxrulz