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. Good luck, Troy On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Nick Scholtes <airchia at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081012/24acd9a6/attachment.htm