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Subject: Re: Needing to find a basic How-To.
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Hi.  You might want to check out empowerment zone
http://www.empowermentzone.com
Select the link for Unix and you will get several books on using Unix as
well as Linux.
These are some of the titles they have:
* Guide to using the Unix operating system
     * Unix for Beginners
     * Berkeley Unix Primer
     * Taming the Unix interface
     * Brief Unix Overview
     * Unix Quick Reference Guide
     * Guide to Unix terminology
     * Quick reference to correspondence between DOS and Unix commands
     * Essential Information for MS-DOS Users Moving to Unix
Environments
     * Answers to frequently asked questions about Unix
     * Explanation of Unix file permissions
     * Explanation of Unix regular expressions
     * Compilation of tips about file types and endings, especially
those        found on Unix systems
     * Multimedia File Formats on the Internet
     * Beginner's Guide to Linux
     * Answers to frequently asked questions about the Linux version of
       Unix
     * Another, "meta" set of answers to frequently asked questions
about        the Linux version of Unix

          Kenny

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at
12:22:13AM -0800, Anna Schneider wrote:
> 
> I need a basic How-To or faq of some sort.  Something that defines various 
> Linux terms and tells me what to do the first time I turn the machine on.  
> My computer arrived today and I've been procrastinating doing more 
> research on what to do with a Linux system and now I can procrastinate no 
> longer.
> 
> I just wandered around the Linux documentation project, and I found lots 
> of How-Tos on lots of things, and I wrote a list of the ones I will visit 
> soon, but I just want a beginner one right now.  Does such a thing exist 
> on the web in text because I can't access it any other way right now?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Anna
> 
> 
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