[plug] A newbie question - navigation

[Michael Vandine]

Thanks, Craig!  Much appreciated!

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>; "Michael Vandine" <mikevandine at iinet.net.au>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] A newbie question - navigation


> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 13:07 +0800, Michael Vandine wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> The current Linux version I am using is Suse 9.1 server.  Does anyone
>> know of any tutorials, etc. that would assist me in coming to grips
>> with this new OS?
> 
> I'm not sure if James has enabled the updated new member welcome message
> yet, so if not you can find it here:
> http://www.plug.org.au/archives/message/20050205.071400.0eaf94c4.html
> It contains discussions of common resources, list guidelines, etc and is
> well worth a read.
> 
> Thanks for writing all that James.
> 
> I also tend to agree with Shayne - it's hard to go wrong with a book if
> you need to get up and running in a hurry. I've had little experience
> with general books on Linux, so perhaps others who've read some recent
> ones would like to throw in a suggestion or two?
> 
> One thing to be aware of with books is that the details of the OS change
> fairly rapidly. A book on Red Hat 8 will contain a *lot* of outdated
> information, especially about the distributor's system administration
> tools and configuration and about the graphical desktop environments.
> Even outdated resources can be very useful (and for example a command-
> line reference won't become dated quickly), so long as you realise it
> may be a bit out of date and aren't too shocked if the odd thing doesn't
> work how it says it should. I'm sure you're quite familiar with this
> process from Windows, but it's always worth a reminder.
> 
> -- 
> Craig Ringer
>