I haven't played in linux in about 3 years and I need to brush up on some of my commands. (moving, editing, vi editor, etc). I last used it in college compiling javac programs in my data structures class. I'm going to dig through everything and see if i can find it.

Anyone have a personal favorite site they like to use for quick references?

6/6/2011 10:47:32 AM

yeah it's called the man pages newbie

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 10:55 AM. Reason : but not the man pages you'd be familiar with]

6/6/2011 10:55:23 AM

Okay, but more seriously, what distribution? Why will you be needing to use Linux in the first place?

6/6/2011 10:57:42 AM

php/sql (LAMP setup), editing, viewing, moving files around in the command line. Not sure on the distro.

6/6/2011 11:09:10 AM

Having a "cheat sheet" or linux for dummies type book is helpful, but your best bet is to just load up a vm and give yourself some arbitrary, but meaningful task.

Try installing CentOs and setting up a simple LAMP webserver and a CMS package. Learn to edit and save files in "vi". Install subversion or git. Install Sun Java and get Eclipse working. Compile and install something from a source package. Anything.

Any sort of random "everyday" kind of task will get you in the groove, but the trick is just doing meaningful stuff with it on a regular basis.

6/6/2011 11:11:13 AM

we definitely are going to need more information. Depending on your shell choice (or the most likely the shell default of whatever distro you're choosing) all of the commands would be totally different. Most places use a bash shell, but that's not to say there aren't others available.

6/6/2011 11:29:19 AM

http://store.xkcd.com/xkcd/#LinuxCheatShirt

6/6/2011 11:44:37 AM

yeah just not sure on the distro.

Going to do a thumb drive boot up and play around in vi. Also found a couple of "linux bible" torrents, going to catch up on those.

^lul that is awesome.

[Edited on June 6, 2011 at 11:45 AM. Reason : s]

6/6/2011 11:45:09 AM

http://tldp.org has some good how-to's and information (although some of it is outdated).
http://www.linux.com is a pretty good Linux news aggregate site with a section dedicated to new users.
http://www.vim.org
http://www.linuxquestions.org - not too bad for answers with some nice stickies

6/6/2011 11:27:19 PM

http://www.ss64.com for all common CLI

6/7/2011 3:14:15 AM

Yea. Go to linuxquestions.org. Read through the threads and see if you can reproduce problems and find a fix. I'd suggest starting with the newbie section.

6/7/2011 7:00:15 AM

seriously, manpages are your friend

that and --help, /?, -h, /h, etc.

also, fedora ftw.

6/7/2011 7:03:04 PM

http://www.linuxdocs.org/

6/11/2011 8:26:32 AM