<div dir="ltr">I picked up the book, "A Practical Guide to Linux: commands, editors, and shell programming" by Mark Sobell, a few years back when I was a just getting started with Linux. The book has a lot of detailed information, but is presented with the beginner in mind.<br>
<br>Good luck,<br><br>Troy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Nick Scholtes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:airchia@gmail.com">airchia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">True. I went to Barnes and Noble to peruse and get a better idea of what I need. What I want is something that walks you through the CLI. Most of the books I found were the "bibles" that were $50 and told you basics like how to play music in KDE. I don't need that. I want to get into the nuts and bolts. But a "nuts and bolts" guide aimed more at a noob. <br>
<br>Another example would be how to get in a tweak the performance of the kernel, desktops, and turn off all un-needed processes. <br><br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Nick</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Mike Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu" target="_blank">mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Nick Scholtes wrote:<br>
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</div><div>> I'm looking for a website or book aimed at beginning hackers for Linux.<br>
> Something that walks you step by step through fun and useful tweaks to<br>
> optimize your system. I haven't had much luck thus far. I figure the<br>
> best way to learn Linux inside and out is to just get in there and take<br>
> it apart and play around. But I need something that walks me through it.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Not sure, but there are a few different things to get into configuring.<br>
One would be your desktop experience -- depends on what you are using:<br>
Gnome, KDE, etc. Of course choosing a desktop and window manager is<br>
another aspect of configuration.<br>
<br>
Another area is the shell. Bash is the usual default. There are a bunch<br>
of files that configure the shell. You can create aliases and stuff like<br>
that.<br>
<br>
After that many programs have their "recipe" files or config files and you<br>
will want to do something with those, e.g., ~/.emacs<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Mike<br>
</font><div><div></div><div><br>
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