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Monday, October 23, 2006

Linux Newbie Links

I am fairly new into the world of Linux and it can be quite a daunting place to start with. Although there is quite a lot of GUI stuff these days so I am bungling along and learning a bit as I go.

At the moment I am using Linux not very often, only usually testing or installing on Linux machines when a particular projects needs it. So I have basically managed to install Java, install Tomcat and get it starting up on startup and of course play a few games that come with Linux.

I have found a few good links for other Linux Newbies and thought I would post them in case other people were interesting and so I don't lose them myself.

A good source to post Linux questions
http://www.linuxquestions.org/

A nicely named site
http://www.linuxnewbieguide.org/

This site is really good, like a free administration book really
http://linux-newbie.dotsrc.org/html/lnag.html

A Linux Blog
http://linux.weblogger.com/

The site's good, it has a newbie section and tutorials and lots more
http://www.tuxfiles.org/

The site above has something that I bungled along with for ages, unzipping (windows speak) tar files. Here is the answer
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

The above problem is a typical kind of problem I run into, I know what I want to do, I know how I do it in windows but in Linux is called something different, placed somewhere different and done in different way. It can be quite frustrating but very rewarding once you do something.

If anyone has any better links please post them in a comment

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