[plug] re Linux lecture

[sol]

I'm not so sure about videos, but there are treasure troves of 
information to be had though it's not always obvious to newbies where to 
find it - it was a year before I really started discovering the huge 
amounts of documentation about. Documentation though does tend to be 
specialised and fragmentary in my opinion.
For an all-round Linux resource download the Linux Cookbook. It a bit 
Debian specific even though it tries not to be, but it does focus on the 
nitty-gritty stuff that intimidates newbies and does it in a way which 
is reasonably easy to comprehend. I wish it had been around when I was 
starting fresh into Linux, it would have saved me a lot a time. Go to 
http://tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookbook/ to get either the html or pdf 
version. Also browse the page http://tldp.org/guides.html. It's not 
newbie specific but you may find something of interest there anyway.
I can't emphasize enough though how important it is to check out your 
installation for documentation. Most distros come with reams of info 
which is really useful. If you can't find it in your menus then check 
out the directory /usr/share/doc/ You might be surprised at what you 
find here. When I started out with Linux I was starting out with 
computing too (6 weeks of win98 was enough for me) so I was pretty 
clueless. It took ages before I stumbled outside of /home/sol and found 
out what was going on, including the piles of documentation to be had.

Hope progress is quicker for you than it was for me. :-)

sol

Greg Anderson wrote:

>Hi Sol
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>Looking forward to the Linux lecture :)
>
>As a newbie to Linux, do you know of any easy to digest training videos
>or other on learning the basics of Linux?
>
>TIA
>
>Greg
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