Learning Linux?

I want to learn how to use Linux, command line and all. I have already installed Redhat 7.1 on my machine, and would love to know how to use it. Could anyone suggest any good learning resources(Web or book)?

Thanks

The number one stop for you should probably be the Linux Documentation Project at www.linuxdoc.org

Another place on the web thats usually pretty good for getting your questions answered is www.linuxnewbie.org, on their forums.

And, ifn you don't like the atmosphere at linuxnewbie.org, you can always use the usenet groups under alt.os.linux* and comp.os.linux* Millions of people learned linux using the newgroups before all the web forums were even thought of.

HTH,

nuk

I started to learn how to use UNIX not long ago too, I found this site to be helpful for beginners,
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
I had no previous experience with anythin but windows and it helped me

Good Luck

Thanks Nickname

That looks really worthwhile and has been properly bookmarked.

I'd suggest reinstalling it using 'expert' mode (if you have that on RH!) - if it's anything like mandrake (same underlying distro so I guess it might be) then you get to read what each package contains that you're installing - even after installing various linux distros many times now, I still have a pen and paper when I install to write down packages I've not checked out before. After I've installed I do a 'man <package>' to see what the package is about...

That's probably not what you wanted to hear though - book wise I'd highly recommend 'UNIX Powertools' by O'Reilly. It's a bit like a cookbook for UNIX describing how to get numerous common tasks done at the command line.

Mmm... redhat.... at the commandline try:

to find out if you have a RedHat Package Manager (rpm) package installed with <string> in it's name.

ie to see what apache packages are installed if any:


In general though there's no better place to start than for reading the linux documentation (HOWTOs/miniHOWTOs/guides) as mentioned by nuk below whenever you need to do something new - 'rpm -qa | grep HOWTO' - you know it makes sense!