Linux

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Help me convert - easy for an expert.

0 helpful
5 replies

by mike_fry 1 view

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

Well it's a simple question, for an expert but for me...

Any way, I am trying to learn linux, I am well established in the MS Operating Systems, however I just can't figure out linux.

It's all good and well for people to tell me "use it" but it doesn't help me get an understanding of it.

I have a background in Windows and Ds that lets me know what is what how it works and how things interact. However these are things I need to know in Linux.

So....

Is there anyone out there whocan point me at a resource that will explain each component of the OS, how it all interacts and so forth.. EG. windows manager, Xservers, kernels and the rest??? how do all these things work together and what relies on what????

Any way, I said itwould be easy for an expert (but not a short answer unfortunatley).

5 replies

by hvkamat

mike,

everybody makes a beginning. a nice linux site to start with is www.linuxnewbie.com. You can start off from here. There are links to other linux sites from here which can be useful.

- Hemant

by sierramyk

No disrespect to h.v.kamat, but I don't find linuxnewbie.com all that helpful--realizing that it's a new forum; I'm sure it will get better over time. I found linuxnewbie.org much more help--also areas like the Linux Documentation Project (http://www.linuxdoc.org/). You might try the Linux Newbie Guide at http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/index.htm. You are definitely right that there is not a short answer to this question--there is a lot of online documentation as I'm sure you've found. If you want to try a book--Running Linux is supposed to be pretty good (my local library had a copy).
(I'm maybe half a step ahead of you...just learning this myself--similar background in Windows/DOS but no *nix variants 'til now). Hope this helps some.

This discussion is closed to new replies.