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[Ari]

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Hi, 
My name is Ari  and I want to learn linux. I have fedorra core 1 installed with the YASR screen reader and I would please like to know: 
1. Is their anywhere I can get a better free software synthesizer then eflite which is awful? 
2. I know nothing about how to use Linux or the text-interface is their a friendly book or tape tutorial for a real beginner? The linux with YASR was installed for me so that I can start to learn linux but I need something which will give me a good introduction to Linux, the text-interface and how to set up and do things in simple, non-technical language. I brought a book called Linux for dummies, but it looks as if it is for the graphical interface, but it doesn't look to me as if gnopernicus is very usable yet, because we first installed Linux with it, but we couldn't get it to read information off the screen, we couldn't even get it to read it's own help file or dialogue! But it did read text documents, though. 
Thanks 
Ari

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Re: Question -- good intro to Linux

[gumnos (Tim Chase)]

> I need something which will give me a good introduction to Linux

One of the best texts I've found is "The Linux Cookbook", which is
available in both the dead-tree version for money, and electronically
for free.  You can find one of many online copies at

    http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_toc.html

It may even be included in your distribution, depending on which you
have.  I think it may come with Debian, though I'm not sure.

I've found that it pays much more attention to the newbie at the console
than just about any other text I've read.  The Cookbook is good from
both a beginner perspective, yet it's got nuggets in it that I've found
useful even after a number of years of working with Linux.  It has a
bias towards the Debian distribution, but all the packages should be
available for other distros.  It's got a couple chapters on X, but you
can just skip those until you're comfortable at the console, and then
you can delve into Gnopernicus later.

With the exception of the rather small portion on X, the rest is all
console based, so you should be good to go.  Granted, there are a lot of
power features that you begin to learn over time that aren't included
(or are just touched on most lightly), but there are other sources for
that sort of thing.  This should get you goin' fairly quickly.

It covers shell basics, some security basics, getting help (with "man"
and "info"), manipulating files (finding, assigning rights, working with
Dos files, etc), grammer & spell checking, as well as other text
manipulations & searching, manipulating audio from the command-line,
printing, calendar & contact software, math calculators from the command
line, as well as networking/internet/web/email.

Hope this helps,

-tim