-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 slackware has 2 books in electronic text I found very useful in installing and using that distro. slackware linux esentials is the official slackware book and is available in html at http://www.slackware.com/book. The second is slackware linux unleashed and is available in etext but I forget the site. it is slightly out of date but most of the stuff in it is still useful. On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:50:15PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote: > Hi, Andrew. > Every Linux distribution has manuals and allot of them such as Red Hat and > Mandrake put their documentation in electronic formats. > For example a book I found very useful for learning was the Mandrake Command > line reference which gives you need to know information on changing > directories, copying files, etc... > In some cases Linux documentation can be hard to find, but in reality there > are lots of good quality books out there such as the Red Hat Linux Bible, > Mandrake Linux users guides, the gnome doc project, etc... The problem is > not weather there is great documentation for Linux, but getting that > documentation in etext format which you and I can read. > If you would like the Mandrake docs to look over I have converted them from > pdf to ascii text, and they may help you read up on some Linux basics. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "andrew shipp" <andrew.shipp at ntlworld.com> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:43 AM > Subject: Re: linux > > > > Hello Tomass, Is there any documentation that I can get to read up about > > Linnux? if so could you send me the website to get this from please. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 4:34 PM > > Subject: Re: linux > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > On 03/16/04 3:54 AM -0800, Bob Dodd wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > those out there. Further, there are many books on, say, how to use > > > > Microsoft Word, but precious few about the equivalent applications > used > > > > on Linux, so again the learning curve can be quite steep. > > > > > > While I agree that the learning curve is pretty steep there certainly > are > > > *vast* amounts of documentation. The information may not be MS Word for > > > dummies style books, but IMHO if you take the time to read what is > > available > > > you will know much more about how your linux system works than you can > > > ever know about how windows works. > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > to get onto the Usenet discussion groups about Linux and its > > > > applications to help you learn how to use them. > > > > > > While I love mailing list style discussion groups, I would not advise a > > > newbie to touch usenet with a ten foot pole. The signal to noise ratio > > > on most of the news groups I've read was not very high at all. Again of > > > course this is my opinion. > > > > > > - -- > > > Clarke's Corollary: > > > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > > > > > iD8DBQFAVyyV5JK61UXLur0RAmQgAJ9zhuopvM7479u2IKq8vfLj4T2VwwCdF7NI > > > clXjfz3Vv80lTSnccC9bOts= > > > =2X3h > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWEW29XVrM3ri110RAqkNAJ9fKhp/zgCRJuv1o2ziSXB4ImAzgwCeJCSV lLIT8qI4XGWdEP+vLij0LZA= =zz6x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
