On Monday 19 June 2006 11:05 am, jerry Nolan wrote: > I also am interested in a tutorial session. I am retired in Cottage > Grove and have installed FC2&3 but I need a lot more knowledge to use > effectively. I have several other distros on cd that I can share if > anyone is interested in a tutorial meeting. I have fc4&5, slack > 10.2&10.1,gentoo 2004.2,mandriva, ubuntu, suse 9.2, free bsd6.0, plus > some disks that come with "linux format mag" like skype, several games > etc. Jerry Nolan Hey, I live in CG myself, had fun with my daughter at Strawberry Fest last weekend. I have a printed 0.84 version of Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition which is also freely available online. It used to be rute.sourceforge.net but it is apparently gone from there. I found it on google at for example: http://www.chongluo.com/books/rute/. This is a very detailed book that helps cover the fundamentals of computing and also Linux. Many concepts are applicable to all *nix such as the principle that everything in the file system is a file: files, directories, character devices, hardware, sockets, links, etc. Other basic commands are also generally available across all *nix OSs like ls, grep, find, tar, sed, ps, shells and piping, etc. I did not read all of this by any means but I did start reading from the beginning and it really helped me understand some of the important princicples of computing. I mostly used it as a reference guide as I wanted to know more about something I would jump to that chapter and read up on the specific topic. Then when I understood the info there I would either apply that to what I wanted to do or else read online for any additional information which was usually extremely easy to digest at that point with only needing to comprehend the details and not the concepts since most documentation online covers the details and not the concepts and are not very good at teaching only showing you how to do. I use Gentoo on my desktop at home and have used the same installation of Gentoo for the last 4+ years. I use Linux a lot at work as well maintaining many Linux servers.