[mythtv-users] Good, general Linux resources?

Zak onlydarksets at mahshie.net
Mon Aug 22 13:30:55 UTC 2005


Thanks!  In particular, the "From DOS/Windows to Linux HOWTO" is a great 
resource.  Coming from Windows/DOS, this offers some good information:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html

David Watkins wrote:

>On 22/08/05, Zak <onlydarksets at mahshie.net> wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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.).
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>A good place to start
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>http://www.tldp.org/
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