Thanks interesting links and good list of suggested books :) FYI: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ may have had some build failure but it is now available in html, text, pdf.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/index.en.html http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.txt http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.pdf I did upload these source to CVS archive :) On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:39:29PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote: > [Hi list: post here is notify of response. perhaps some of the below useful > for debian documentation links?] > > Hi Mike. > > You can start with these, and click around: > http://www.debian.org/ > http://www.debianplanet.org/ > And you can search for things like: > - shell tutorial > [interesting result: > http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.html > ] > - shell scripting tutorial > - bash scripting tutorial > - linux tutorial > - debian tutorial > [interesting results: > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue15/debian.html > http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp > ] > and even > - unix tutorial > [interesting results: > http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html > http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/ > http://www.math.utah.edu/lab/unix/unix-tutorial.html > The Unix Programming Environment, > by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, > Prentice-Hall, 1984. > http://bromide.ocean.washington.edu/unix.tutorial.html > http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/ > > ...and that was just some of the first google page of about 456,000 > matches! you're in -damn- good hands! > ] > since debian is a linux is a unix work-alike. > note: I tried every one of these searches, with spectacular results > for each. > > at a web search engine like http://www.google.com/ or yahoo or whatever. > > All of the above will work with plain text; X is optional but in -no- > way is it necessary. Everything you learn can be done in plain text > mode. Pretty much, the only assumption I have made in this response > is that you are computer literate (turn computer on, shutdown properly, > can read and attempt to understand error messages, can read reference > material). The important thing is that you take things in in -small- > pieces, actually try each piece, and think about the result you get. > > -Jim > > On Thu, 16 May 2002 13:59:43 +0100 > "Dupont, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Sirs, > > the http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ is not available... > > Can you provide a list of good starting places for beginnners with debian > > linux? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
