[plug] Noddy learns Linux ... or a beginner's guide

[Richard Meyer]

Hi people,

An old acquaintance has contacted me, desperate to reskill herself - she
wants to learn Linux/Unix, but has no idea where to start.

Since I have only recently managed to turn my 15 year obsession with
Linux into a paying job, I feel I may not be the right person to ask,
but I replied and the meat of the answer is below

> Remember that Unix/Linux is a full OS and trying to learn anything
> without the basics is difficult - I started playing in 1995 - never
> really took it seriously, but liked it and played .....
> 
> I am attaching the body of a course I was writing for absolute
> beginners. It may help you, or it may not ....
> 
> Some advice - join the Perth Linux User Group mailing list - search
> for
> them on Google and join. If you show that you tried to get things
> going,
> they will help.
> 
> Go to a newsagent and try to get a copy of the July or August edition
> of
> Linux Format magazine - it has DVD full of Linux stuff every month -
> the
> July one has the latest version of Ubuntu Linux and the August one has
> Mint Linux. They are probably the two easiest versions to install and
> run, AND they both run from the DVD - slowly, but they run.

Does anybody have any more/better advice?

(I suppose the advice to buy the mag may be met by "Download it,
yourself", but she's not exactly PC literate, and downloading and
burning an ISO may be more of a PITA than anybody may want).

-- 
Richard Meyer

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