Best source for Linux help, esp for newbies... 3225

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There is no such thing.

Everybody is at different levels of enlightment, and everybody has different styles of learning.

You may find the give and take of a newsgroup like this confusing - some people hate the newsgroups and prefer to go to forums like many others - each has their own style, their own community and you may like one more or less today and less or more next month. I prefer the newsgroups, and don't like the forums, but that's me, and you aren't me (last I checked, anyway).

tutorial articles with a forum. There's plenty of that kind of site to choose from too, and (in my opinion), having lots of choice is good, because what *I* write about sudo or pam or lvm might hit you exactly where you live, but then again it might be too advanced for your current state of knowledge, or next month be too simplistic.. and of course your knowledge of X might be much more advanced than your knowledge of Y, so the BEST is whatever is best for YOU at this moment. Shop around.. One site *I* really like (especially since they dropped the stupid black background-white text) is are under-valued on the web (but that's MY opinion).

toolbar (and yes, it works in Firefox) that takes you to sites other stumble users found useful or interesting. You can set it to take you to Linux-Unix sites only, and randomly find things you might want to learn about.

Do you like to learn by taking tests? A lot of people enjoy my some people and way too advanced for others. If it matches your needs at the moment, you can learn quite a bit and the answers often send you off to research more deeply.

As others have mentioned, Google is also your friend here. If you want to know about xyz, try googling it. The only problem there is that some topics get too many useless hits, but as you learn to filter those out, you can find great resources you never knew where there.

Finally, books. There are a LOT of good Linux books out there. You can find a small listing of book review sites at is a matter of personality and preference.

Best of luck..

-- Tony Lawrence