Highly useful Linux commands & configurations - Tutorial

[Dedoimedo]

Hello,

I have written a text and image guide that explains the basic concepts of command line usage in Linux, as well as the most common configurations that a new Linux user might encounter and need to setup.

These include handling of archives, compilation, scripts, drivers, printer and file sharing, and more.

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux_commands.html

This guide is the first in a series of such tutorial that I'm writing. I'll soon post a GRUB tutorial, as well.

Best regards,
Dedoimedo

[Carlos Santiago]

VERY hard to read.
Plz simplify it, if you want of course! ;-)

[Dedoimedo]

Hello,

Thanks for your comments. As to the simplicity, if anyone can make it any simpler than it already is, I will be more than glad to hear the ideas.

Best regards,
Dedoimedo

[DC@DR]

It's pretty good tutorial, useful and easy-to-follow. Thanks for putting it up :-)

[Carlos Santiago]

Why do I think it is hard to read?
Because it has lots of text for very few commands.
(see http://www.google.pt/search?q=create+simple+effective+web+pages)

BTW, there are very important info that is missing.
For example in two subjects: process kill and mounting partitions
1) killal -> you should explain that a user can kill a process by its name.
2) xkill -> or with the mouse
3) mount -t FSTYPE device dir -> the mounting command is missing
4) mount file dir -o loop -> mount ISO files

Look that your work is valuable.
But IMHO is could became better.

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

Nice work - it made it into my bookmarks :-)

[fycloops]

Thanks for that. Cleared a few things up for me.

[Blowfly]

Dedo,

I also feel this to be an excellent resource for a n00b such as myself.

Carlito, good constructive criticism as no doubt it will make a good resource even better.

Thanks to both.

BF

[AlanRogers]

I personally found this guide to be very useful; well written without being too dry. Writing technical guides for new users is an extremely thankless and quite difficult task so, wearing my new user hat, a public thank you is extended for making this effort.

If I might be so bold as to suggest an addition, a useful tip that I picked up elsewhere which has saved me plenty of time when using Samba on a Windows home network is the suggestion to enter all of the known and valid Windows username/password combinations as valid Samba users. Then Windows users can map the shares as persistent drives without having to enter username/password all the time.

[Dedoimedo]

Thank you all for your comments.
Marked - improvement work in progress - might take a bit of time as I'm working on new articles as well as real life / job, but the suggestions are well appreciated.
Dedoimedo

[reginabally]

Thanks for that. Very useful for noob like me. :)

[Abiezer]

Another thank you. Excellent resource.