How Can I Start Learning Linux

can someone give some tutor or website to me???and i want to know what i need to learn first and which version is easiler to learn...

The best way is to download linux, and install it.
jump in at the deep end, in my opinion anyway.

There are many distro's aimed at first time users.

i would recomend oone of the following...

https://www.ubuntu.com/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

and if you have any problems, post here, and someone will help.

Yes, that's it! Installing it is the first step and the right step to get into it. READ about partitioning your hard drive, swap partition, root password and all this, and then simply do so, it's fun.

A nice distribution overview can be found here:
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

GreetingZ

It's a matter of personal style. I would buy an introductory book, printed on paper (Does anyone else here remember paper?), and lie on my back in bed and read it through. Oddly, books intended for beginning certifications are often best for this kind of thing.The previous posters are right, though. If you don't already have some basic ideas about modern computers, such as the concepts of partitions, file systems, kernal, shell, etc., you're liable to find it rough going.

I have a form of linux on my Xbox and it is really impressive. Only a few months ago i knew absoloutely squat about linux and now im running it on a PC perfectly fine and also as mentioned my Xbox. I started off with Mandrake for my PC and it was very simple to install and run. It gives you the same sort of look to windows and runs soooo much better too. I beleive it is 3 disks in size but you get all the extras you need to get it running right. I use Gentoox on the xbox which is just as good, it is just the xbox version of gentoo.It is definately worth trying out, as even if you end up going back over to windows after a while, you will have widened your knowledge that little bit more.

Does anyone else here remember paper?

Ah ... paper, wasn't this that kind of static html-page which can be watched even if your harddisk crashes? Yes I remember it well, but I didn't like it too much, you can't change screen resolution, and updates are hard to find. But I'm not an expert, I used Paper 2000 and not Paper Xp.

Yes I remember it well, but I didn't like it too much, you can't change screen resolution, and updates are hard to find.

Yeah, it had its faults, but it had really good power-saving: I ran some of mine for years without ever recharging the batteries.

The first step in my mind is deciding if you are sure you want to learn it or not. I say this only because of the 'live cds" most distros have now. They allow you to download a cd worth of data and you boot from, letting you run linux with most/all features without installing a thing. Sure there are limitations but that would be almost moreso just to explore the feel of linux a bit.If you've decided you DO want to learn linux (which you seem to) I'd say learn about partitioning your HD with the distro you choose (most come with built in partitioning software now) and just install it. Once you have it installed just play around with everything. Worst case scenario, you break something important and reinstall. Best case scenario you learn alot. The forums for whatever distro you get are probably very helpful.For beginners I would suggest getting either Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, or Ubuntu. All are very user friendly linux distros and easy to get into. They all have great user support as well so anytime you have a problem the answer is probably out there on a forum, and if not just ask and it'll likely be answered quickly.There is alot to linux, but getting the basics down enough to handle day-to-day usage is not too big of a deal so good luck and have fun. Oh, and welcome to the greener side of the fence

Yes you're right, voltage usage is fantastically low! And it's virus resistant too. But it's very uncomfortable to zip paper. Well it's easy to zip, but after unzipping it doesn't look the same anymore. And ... when I try to minimize in the taskbar or maximize to the whole desktopt, it usually does not work. It simply keeps it's size. That's no good. Did you ever try out the Paper Mass Storage Solution called 'book'? GreetingZ

The first thing to do is to install a Linux Distro. You should check this out

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

But in my opinion, the best choice is Fedora Core, it's the next generation of Opened Redhat Linux. I find it very useful and I hope you will too.

A book that I recommend is Linux for Dummies (yes, the dummies book, it taught me some of the Linux basics) and u can teach yourself, imo, it's the best way, that's how I learned Linux :mellow:xboxrulz

Well, I started off with a boxed copy of Red Hat 7.0 I bought in a store, but I didn't learn too much from it...not to mention RPM is the most confusing format of installing programs that I have ever worked with. I later ugraded to 7.1, only to find it didn't get any better. When I really started learning, in when I jumped in the deep end and downloaded the slackware install CD images. I went with slackware because it was the most UNIX-like linux distribution, and I didn't want to learn to use "Red Hat" "SuSE" or "KDE" or "GNOME", I wanted to learn UNIX in raw form. So I dove into slackware, compiling my software from source code (which is actually simpler than the "simple" RPM), and man pages...don't even forget the man pages. And us. We fellow *NIX users, despite whether we use Linux, BSD, System V/Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X/Darwin, it doesn't matter. We all help each other. Just don't be afraid of keyboards or terminals...they're your friend.you can PM me if you need any more help. I, along with many others on here are willing to help you with this. And when you do install your first *NIX distro, good luck, and don't forget to enjoy it!

the RPM isn't hard to use @ all:rpm -ivh = installrpm -Uhv = upgraderpm -e = remove (erase)rpm -qi (query)rpmbuild --rebuild = rebuild your source RPM.I say that RPM is the best package management, IMO. The TGZ, PORTAGE and DEB aren't easy to use and configure. Portage takes forever, TGZ ... why don't I just use KInstaller and compile that source myself, DEB is just plain old and not really user friendly although you do get apt-get by default.When optimizing your RPM thru the source RPMs, it is much faster and it will be built at your specification like portage and tgz.xboxrulz