linux

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi, Andrew.
Every Linux distribution has manuals and allot of them such as Red Hat and
Mandrake put their documentation  in electronic formats.
For example a book I found very useful for learning was the Mandrake Command
line reference which gives you need to know information on changing
directories, copying files, etc...
In some cases Linux documentation can be hard to find, but in reality there
are lots of good quality books out there such as the Red Hat Linux Bible,
Mandrake Linux users guides, the gnome doc project, etc... The problem is
not weather there is great documentation for Linux, but getting that
documentation in etext format which you and I can read.
If you would like the Mandrake docs to look over I have converted them from
pdf to ascii text, and they may help you read up on some Linux basics.


----- Original Message -----
From: "andrew shipp" <andrew.shipp at ntlworld.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: linux


> Hello Tomass,  Is there any documentation that I can get to read up about
> Linnux?  if so could you send me the  website to get this from please.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:34 PM
> Subject: Re: linux
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> > On 03/16/04  3:54 AM -0800, Bob Dodd wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > those out there. Further, there are many books on, say, how to use
> > > Microsoft Word, but precious few about the equivalent applications
used
> > > on Linux, so again the learning curve can be quite steep.
> >
> > While I agree that the learning curve is pretty steep there certainly
are
> > *vast* amounts of documentation. The information may not be MS Word for
> > dummies style books, but IMHO if you take the time to read what is
> available
> > you will know much more about how your linux system works than you can
> > ever know about how windows works.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > to get onto the Usenet discussion groups about Linux and its
> > > applications to help you learn how to use them.
> >
> > While I love mailing list style discussion groups, I would not advise a
> > newbie to touch usenet with a ten foot pole. The signal to noise ratio
> > on most of the news groups I've read was not very high at all. Again of
> > course this is my opinion.
> >
> > - --
> > Clarke's Corollary:
> > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
> > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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