On Wednesday 05 September 2001 21:29, you wrote: > I'm a linux newbie. I want to learn more. I spent some time at the > bookstore looking at linux books. They were all of the "how to use KDE" > variety. I might be dumb but I'm not stupid! I don't need some book > telling me how a GUI works. > > I'm looking for info on a class, book, person etc that can teach me how > linux really works--the much ballyhooed command line. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > Regards, > > TeamStrange Airheads, Inc. > By: Adam S. Wolkoff > Vice President, Special Projects > adam at teamstrange.com <mailto:adam at teamstrange.com> > http://www.teamstrange.com > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list The book I used to teach Linux at Duluth Business University was: A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark G Sobell, Addison Wesley It goes into a significant amount of detail on subjects from the file system to shell usage/scripting for bash, tcsh, and zsh. Its a little "old" at this point (c)1997 but its still a good basic book. -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com