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. Another example would be how to get in a tweak the performance of the kernel, desktops, and turn off all un-needed processes. Thanks, Nick On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Nick Scholtes wrote: > > > I'm looking for a website or book aimed at beginning hackers for Linux. > > Something that walks you step by step through fun and useful tweaks to > > optimize your system. I haven't had much luck thus far. I figure the > > best way to learn Linux inside and out is to just get in there and take > > it apart and play around. But I need something that walks me through it. > > > Not sure, but there are a few different things to get into configuring. > One would be your desktop experience -- depends on what you are using: > Gnome, KDE, etc. Of course choosing a desktop and window manager is > another aspect of configuration. > > Another area is the shell. Bash is the usual default. There are a bunch > of files that configure the shell. You can create aliases and stuff like > that. > > After that many programs have their "recipe" files or config files and you > will want to do something with those, e.g., ~/.emacs > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Art: http://www.coroflot.com/bellsoffreedom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081006/216ac77f/attachment.htm