A 12-Step program for personal Linux edification
Posted: Wed 11 Jul 2007, 19:39
A 12-Step program for personal Linux edification
Frustrated with the necessary-by-design lack of man pages or other general Linux documentation in the Puppy Linux distribution? Ever find yourself wrestling with the search function on the forum or seemingly endless navigating circuitous, serpentine routes on the wiki? Hate having to open and keep track of a multitude of browser tabs to a variety of websites?
Smile! There's good news. Help is a mere 12-steps and 10-minutes away. And it's easy to do.
The book Linux - LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer is an incredible resource that is available as a conventional book or online. But you don't have to buy the book or continually surf the online table of contents as it's also available, in full, in HTML format ... as a single 1.4M compressed file!
Here's what Freshmeat says: "Rute (Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition) is a book on GNU/Linux that aims to be the definitive guide for new users ..." and "It covers essential theory to UNIX as well as giving practical tutorials on all fundamental aspects of Unix administration, from basic commands, the theory of TCP/IP, the Linux filesystem, through to configuration of mail, DNS, and other servers, through hardware configuration and package management. It is not Unix-specific but tends to give examples suited to Debian and RedHat-like systems."
If this interests you, here's a quick and easy way to have Rute in its entirety available full-time, anytime, locally on your computer.
An added bonus is that dial-up users only have to download a single 1.4M file.
Ready?
1 - Open a browser
2 - Visit this address: http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2
3 - When prompted, save the file "rute.html.tar.bz2" to /root
4 - Click "Home" desktop icon
5 - Scroll down and click on the file "rute.html.tar.bz2"
6 - In Xarchive pop-up window, click the "select all" icon
7 - Click "extract" icon
8 - Click "OK" in the "extraction directory" pop-up window
9 - When extraction work is completed, click "OK"
10 - Close Xarchive window
(You now have a new directory folder labelled "rute" containing 181 items - the entire contents of LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition v1.0.0)
11 - Go back to browser and visit this link: [url]file:///root/rute/index.html[/url] (or file:/root/rute/index.html on some browsers)
12 - Click "bookmarks" and label, file and save as desired
Now Sheer's excellent Rute "book" is a just a browser bookmark key click away that brings you to the table of contents and everything else right there on your computer - not through the Internet. Enjoy.
-aj
Frustrated with the necessary-by-design lack of man pages or other general Linux documentation in the Puppy Linux distribution? Ever find yourself wrestling with the search function on the forum or seemingly endless navigating circuitous, serpentine routes on the wiki? Hate having to open and keep track of a multitude of browser tabs to a variety of websites?
Smile! There's good news. Help is a mere 12-steps and 10-minutes away. And it's easy to do.
The book Linux - LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer is an incredible resource that is available as a conventional book or online. But you don't have to buy the book or continually surf the online table of contents as it's also available, in full, in HTML format ... as a single 1.4M compressed file!
Here's what Freshmeat says: "Rute (Rute Users Tutorial and Exposition) is a book on GNU/Linux that aims to be the definitive guide for new users ..." and "It covers essential theory to UNIX as well as giving practical tutorials on all fundamental aspects of Unix administration, from basic commands, the theory of TCP/IP, the Linux filesystem, through to configuration of mail, DNS, and other servers, through hardware configuration and package management. It is not Unix-specific but tends to give examples suited to Debian and RedHat-like systems."
If this interests you, here's a quick and easy way to have Rute in its entirety available full-time, anytime, locally on your computer.
An added bonus is that dial-up users only have to download a single 1.4M file.
Ready?
1 - Open a browser
2 - Visit this address: http://rute.2038bug.com/rute.html.tar.bz2
3 - When prompted, save the file "rute.html.tar.bz2" to /root
4 - Click "Home" desktop icon
5 - Scroll down and click on the file "rute.html.tar.bz2"
6 - In Xarchive pop-up window, click the "select all" icon
7 - Click "extract" icon
8 - Click "OK" in the "extraction directory" pop-up window
9 - When extraction work is completed, click "OK"
10 - Close Xarchive window
(You now have a new directory folder labelled "rute" containing 181 items - the entire contents of LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition v1.0.0)
11 - Go back to browser and visit this link: [url]file:///root/rute/index.html[/url] (or file:/root/rute/index.html on some browsers)
12 - Click "bookmarks" and label, file and save as desired
Now Sheer's excellent Rute "book" is a just a browser bookmark key click away that brings you to the table of contents and everything else right there on your computer - not through the Internet. Enjoy.
-aj