Re: Thanks to all and one more question

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:19:08 -0500, Walterius wrote:
Thanks to all who replied to my "which Linux distro is best for me" post. I
will be busy with research for days, if not months.

My "one more question" is this: how easy is it to learn Linux these days?

How long is a piece of string. What are you wanting to learn.
Over a thousand commands, try not to get in a hurry.

It is like you are getting an auto parts house with a machine shop.
You can build anything you want or just pull something off the shelf.

Get Mandriva and you will be windows comfortable after install pretty quick.
For basic linux 101 command line info
http://doc.mandrivalinux.com/MandrakeLinux/101/en/Command-Line.html/

These will help getting a running start for applications
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/Application_Crossover_Chart

You want to dig deep into linux,
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

Once you get that down, you can learn to write scripts from

! bash script introduction documentation
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
! bash script advanced documentation
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html

Then you can pick something larger from
http://tldp.org/
.

Relevant Pages

  • Forcing Specified Libraries
    ... bash script (this is in Linux) to run any Java classes. ... So is there any way to take this binary and the libraries it uses, ...
    (comp.lang.c)
  • Forcing Specific Libraries to Load for a C Program
    ... bash script (this is in Linux) to run any Java classes. ... So is there any way to take this binary and the libraries it uses, ...
    (comp.os.linux)
  • Re: Bash scripting question
    ... And the other question is can I use it to check the return values of Linux ... commands if they fail ... is there a way for linux to silently tell my bash script that the ... And can I use this method for other commands in the linux OS to see if ...
    (alt.linux)
  • Re: New IP based security hole in Windows 2000 (yet again)
    ... First you see the boot loader - GRUB which is not Linux. ... used to load any thing, including windoze, *nix, *BSD - you name it. ... But the commands I'm using? ... the compiling) and 'make install' which installs the executables. ...
    (alt.computer.security)
  • Re: wget, how do I download when links are to a php ...?
    ... for the sake of improving my linux skills ... I appreciate the wisdom of one of the responses about the unix ... This real unix philosophy ... e.g. there are commands that do one thing well and another ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)