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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
