#1 A Linux Tutorial Series by Professor Adam
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 9:59 pm
In addition to my programming tutorials, I am also going to write Linux tutorials in this thread. My goal is to walk you through installation, configuration, and common Linux tasks before moving on to the arcane depths of the GNU/Linux catacombs.
The distribution I am going to focus on here is my preffered Slackware. I am not even going to bother trying to cover more; there are far too many distros to touch, but once you become a competent Slacker, the others will look like child's toys.
To get started here, you will want to download disc one (at least) and disc two (if you want a nice GUI, which you probably will) off the slackware site.
Then you will want a machine on which to install Linux. I do not reccommend you try a dual boot system, that will be much more hassle and you will probably just get fed up with it.
Instead, try to find an old computer, at least Pentium 1 with 2 gigs hard drive space, that you don't mind wiping completly. Alternativly, you can use an emulator, like QEMU for Windows. The emulator is slow, but speed is not important when you are learning Linux at all.
Again, I will post more as I have the time; don't expect speedy next posts.
The distribution I am going to focus on here is my preffered Slackware. I am not even going to bother trying to cover more; there are far too many distros to touch, but once you become a competent Slacker, the others will look like child's toys.
To get started here, you will want to download disc one (at least) and disc two (if you want a nice GUI, which you probably will) off the slackware site.
Then you will want a machine on which to install Linux. I do not reccommend you try a dual boot system, that will be much more hassle and you will probably just get fed up with it.
Instead, try to find an old computer, at least Pentium 1 with 2 gigs hard drive space, that you don't mind wiping completly. Alternativly, you can use an emulator, like QEMU for Windows. The emulator is slow, but speed is not important when you are learning Linux at all.
Again, I will post more as I have the time; don't expect speedy next posts.