On 2009-Sep-27 06:32:41 -0700, Marmaduke wrote:
>I learned most useful things from the Info pages on coreutils. Maybe
>these can be rendered to html because they come from Texinfo?
I'd strongly recommend against using the coreutils or bash info
files as a basis for learning Unix. Virtually all G
2009/9/27 William Stein :
ey learn is Linux.
>
> Carlo posted this a few messages back:
>
> http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
>
> I flipped through it a bit, and it looks excellent. And moreover, I think it
> does a great job of emphasizing the difference between UNIX and "Linux".
>
It
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:24 PM, ahmet alper parker wrote:
>
> This is just a recommandation on the topic. Personally, i don' believe
> if someoneone try to learn linux/unix/minix (whatever you call) will
> learn it correctly from the available online literature. Generally,
> they have a misunde
This is just a recommandation on the topic. Personally, i don' believe
if someoneone try to learn linux/unix/minix (whatever you call) will
learn it correctly from the available online literature. Generally,
they have a misunderstanding that everything they learn is Linux.
Maybe writing something
On Sep 27, 3:32 pm, Marmaduke wrote:
> I learned most useful things from the Info pages on coreutils. Maybe
> these can be rendered to html because they come from Texinfo?
look here: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/
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On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM, William Stein wrote:
> Are there any amazingly good freely available introductions to basic
> command line UNIX that people recommend. I've noticed that many
> people (often young students raised on Windows) who really want to
> work on Sage don't know anything a
I learned most useful things from the Info pages on coreutils. Maybe
these can be rendered to html because they come from Texinfo?
On Sep 26, 7:12 pm, William Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any amazingly good freely available introductions to basic
> command line UNIX that people recommend. I
Oh, no, sorry - somehow I skipped over the "freely available" part
your request. My apologies.
-Marshall
On Sep 26, 6:15 pm, William Stein wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote:
>
> > One can do worse than "Unix for Dummies".
>
> Is it available for free online? For
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Marshall Hampton wrote:
>
> One can do worse than "Unix for Dummies".
Is it available for free online? For my purposes, that is a bare
minimum requirement.
-- William
> I can't really review it
> effectively, since I knew most of what's in it before getting i
On Sep 26, 12:12 pm, William Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any amazingly good freely available introductions to basic
> command line UNIX that people recommend. I've noticed that many
> people (often young students raised on Windows) who really want to
> work on Sage don't know anything about
On Sep 26, 9:12 pm, William Stein wrote:
> Are there any amazingly good freely available introductions to basic
> command line UNIX that people recommend.
This fall I'm teaching an introduction lecture to Linux ... the
problem is, that you also have to explain the basics. One book I came
across
One can do worse than "Unix for Dummies". I can't really review it
effectively, since I knew most of what's in it before getting it, but
it seems pretty good for a total newbie. What was very helpful to me
after I learned some basics was O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools, but that
might be overwhelmin
Hi William,
on Cygwin.org (see "http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-ex-win.html";),
they recommend to search for "UNIX basics" and "UNIX tutorial".
Doing so yields e.g.:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
where you can find a browser- or offline-readable "UNIX Tutorial for
Beginners", whi
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