[mythtv-users] Good, general Linux resources?

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Mon Aug 22 13:04:29 UTC 2005


On 22/08/05, Zak <onlydarksets at mahshie.net> wrote:
> I am a longtime (~10 years) Windows tinkerer, but just got into Linux in
> the past year, specifically for the purpose of setting up MythTV (which,
> simply put, rocks).  I have it working, thanks to Jarod's fantastic
> guide.  However, 90% of the commands I entered on faith, without any
> clue what I was doing.
> 
> Are there any good resources that people can recommend for learning
> about the architecture of the linux system?  I'm not looking for a white
> paper, but just a general idea of how it treats hard drives (e.g.,
> having to mount everything), peripherals (e.g., video capture cards),
> etc. along with some of the common commands that are used to manipulate
> system resources (e.g., depmod, modprobe, lspci, dmesg, etc.).

A good place to start

http://www.tldp.org/


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