[plug] A newbie question - navigation

[Michael Vandine]

Thanks, Shayne.  I'll hustle down to my fav bookshop and get one.  I'm 
pretty tech savy (been in IT since '70), so I might get both a 'dummies' 
book to get up and running and also an advanced book for later.

Thanks again!

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shayne O'Neill" <shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>; "Michael Vandine" <mikevandine at iinet.net.au>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] A newbie question - navigation


>
> G'Day Michael. In all honesty , the best aproach is to go down to the
> bookshop and get a linux-for-dummies type book. Depending on how tech savy
> in general you are you could even go for a more advanced book.
>
> i'm told suse provide pretty good doco in paper form with the box set. Is
> this what you have?
>
> --
> "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do
> it, that's trustworthiness."
> -- George Bush on CNN online chat, Aug.30, 2000
> RIAA Copyright notice trap: http://guild.murdoch.edu.au/~shayne/
>
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Michael Vandine wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm a real newbie!  The company that I do technical support for (they are 
>> based in the US) has just released a version of their DBMS and RAD (Rapid 
>> Application Development) systems for Linux.  This was previously only 
>> available on Windows and Novell.
>>
>> I haven't had any training on Linux and only know my way around it enough 
>> to install the software and make it work well, but I would like to learn 
>> a lot more.  I'm not really interested in rebuilding operating systems, 
>> etc. but want to really come to grips with where everything is 
>> (navigation, etc.).  I have only used Windows and a bit of DOS in the 
>> past (I know, *sacrilege*!!
>> ;--)), and with Linux I'm not really sure how to get to everything I need 
>> to get to.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> TIA for any help you can provide.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mike
>