Hi Stuart, Welcome to the group & the world of Linux/open source software.
You are welcome at the meetings...first Wednesday of every month. Great place to start meeting people, build a sense of community & possibly learn things as well. As well...I & am sure others would welcome a chance to sit down for coffee with you & get to know you & answer some of your questions. Again...welcome! Glad to have you here. TekBudda On 9/5/2011 7:07 PM, Greg King wrote: > Simple question to which I think there are no simple answers, but I'll > take a stab at it. With Linux you will want to become somewhat familiar > with the command line and a basic text editor like vi or vim (emacs if > your so inclined, but the learning curve on it is rather large). This > will save you from many a crisis when the GUI interface isn't available. > I'd start with: > > 1. a book on shell programming like "teach yourself shell programming > in 24 hours" - > http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Shell-Programming-Hours/dp/0672323583/ref=dp_ob_title_bk > > 2. A book on Linux itself like "LPI Linux certification" > http://www.amazon.com/LPI-Linux-Certification-Nutshell-OReilly/dp/0596804873/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315267679&sr=1-1 > <http://www.amazon.com/LPI-Linux-Certification-Nutshell-OReilly/dp/0596804873/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315267679&sr=1-1>#_ > 3. A book on open source network administration like > http://www.amazon.com/Administration-Prentice-Computer-Networking-Distributed/dp/0130462101/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315267946&sr=1-1 > <http://www.amazon.com/Administration-Prentice-Computer-Networking-Distributed/dp/0130462101/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315267946&sr=1-1>#_ > (this one is a little dated but something similar would be good). > > I have personally used all of the above resources and found them > useful. YMMV. > > Play with a few distros, at least one RPM based like RedHat and one > Debian based like Ubuntu and learn the software management tools. Play > with user interfaces Gnome, KDE and a lightweight GUI like xfce. Here > virtual machines (VMs) are your friend. I use VMware server which is > free but somewhat old and has some issues, but there are others probably > as good or better. Buy a big multicore 8GB+ memory machine and load it > up with VMs - its all free as in no cost so the only limitation is your > ability to absorb the content. > > There is a lot of information on Linux on the internet (an > understatment) so just google Linux + "your topic" and you will find > toms of information but beware that some of it will be out of date. The > Linux Documentation Project www.tldp.org <http://www.tldp.org/> is a > good place to start and each distro will have its own documentation and > release notes which are usually woth a browse, and man pages are your > friend too. > > I hope that gives you some ideas. Good luck with your quest to learn > Linux. Taken in bite sized peices it can be a very reqarding experience. > > Greg > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stuart Gilmour <stu...@stuartgilmour.com> > Date: Monday, September 5, 2011 1:07 pm > Subject: [clug-talk] n00b > To: clug-talk@clug.ca > >> Hello, >> >> My name is Stuart and I just started to learn linux. I was just >> wondering if anybody had any thoughts on where a good place to >> start would be. (books, links, courses in the calgary area) I >> have "googled" and read few a articles and lessons on the net >> but there is so much to choose from. PS I am interested in >> network administration. If that helps? >> >> Happy I found this group! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Stuart >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
