Basic Unix

Advice please wise ones..

I want to start learning Unix...could you please point me to websites(preferable cos Im poor) or books for a beginner like myself...

Appreciate your help

Id start with our own tutorials section. Lets of good things with links to more.

here's the listing page. just scroll down to *nix:

http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=133897

http://www.linuxdocs.org
http://www.redhat.com
http://www.slackware.org

This will get you going.

--TH13

Get yourself a free shell somewhere where you can play around with commands safely. This is a much better idea than installing Redhat Linux and not having a clue how to use it.

Once you have got some ideas of how to use the system you might then want to consider installing Linux etc, on a 2nd machine, or dual booting.

I have a system with some free shells, PM me for details

Slarty

Well he can also download and install cygwin instead of dual booting, or he can use VMWARE and then he blow up Linux all the live long day without hosing up his box.

www.vmware.com
www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html

:P

what so ever u need...from scratch...basics, programming ,securing, administrating ....all at One place.........
nJoy

http://www.tldp.org/guides.html

Thanks all...this will keep me going for a couple of weeks!!!

Ok I have to add one more thing

Unix for dumies. Great book. Know if you like dried up books the Unix bible. You will probably find them at a library.

Whizkid2300

http://safari.oreilly.com

It's cheap....just $9.99 a month and you can choose 5 books to put in your personal bookshelf (you can change them every month). It has saved my butt on more than one occassion.

It beats the hell out of buying 5 $40 books that you only end using for reference anyway.

I would recommend Unix In a nutshell. It is an excellent book for beginners , and anyone in general really. I learned alot from it and i know you will too.. Good luck

INstalling a unix i suggest *bsd like & from the console you will learn the basic command
with man dedication & patient will help you more then books sometimes:)
I prefer and old real book than online or console book but if you're young maybe you're used
to read on the terminal
Goodjourney

There is a book called the Linux Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition, it is a great book , AND

IT IS AVAILABLE FREE FOR DOWNLOAD.

WOOOOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!!

Go to google, and enter Rute Tutorial Exposition in the search field, and you should find several links to it.

If you want to have something to experiment on without partitioning, or giving up the os you're used to you should take a look at knoppix. It is a linux distro that boots off a cd. All you do is download the iso, burn it to a cd, and then restart with the cd in the drive.

It contains a the linux kernel and even kde and xmms for your multimedia pleasure.

This is where I got my first real taste of linux and I've never looked back.

To download the iso go to http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html and scroll down about 2/3 of the page to a table of places hosting the file

hey a)sna I am pretty sure that Mandrake does that also. I might be worng though.

Whizkid2300