Re: Where did you start?

[Mike Connor <mikec@silug.org>]

The things that served me the best were O'Reilly's "UNIX in a Nutshell" 
book, and WROX presses' "Beginning Linux Programming"; it will get you 
started in shell programming, network programming, etc. (You need to know 
C in advance -- it's not a dummy book ).  Those two should get you started 
in about any direction you want to go.

Another helpful thing having good familiarity with hardware and network 
protocols.  Programming in general too.  I've found that if you know how 
the hardware operates (atleast generally), you already have a pretty good 
idea as to what the OS/application software has to be doing.

Another handy thing would be to read the system init/shutdown scripts in 
/etc/init.d .  You'll get familiar with shell programming and your system 
at the same time.

Let me know want kind of help that was to you.

Mike




On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Adam Born wrote:

> Hi all!  I'm a relative newbie to Linux (I've been playing 
> around/reading about it for almost a year now), and I know that many of 
> you have been working/playing with Linux for a while.   I was wondering 
> how you got your start, and what you used to better yourselves (besides 
> the jump-into-the-deep-end-and-try-to-swim method).  Funny stories, 
> anecdotes, and tales from the dark side would be much appreciated. (I 
> want to make sure that I'm not losing my mind :-)  Thanks!
> 
> Adam  
> 
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