newbies

You've installed every major Linux distribution on every major brand of hardware. You even carry a USB stick loaded with Linux in your front pocket.

For you, the Year of the Linux Desktop was 1996. But how much do you really know about the free OS? Test your mettle with these 20 questions designed to separate the newbies from the seasoned operators

In this article we’re going to look at 7 useful tips to make your Ubuntu experience even better. This is particularly aimed at newbies, and shows you step by step how to tweak Ubuntu with some must have extras.

October 21, 2008 - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago Comments From now onwards I will be posting 5 Linux commands weekly and mostly targeted to Linux newbies or to those who are not much comfortable with Linux commands.

The Register: "It is hard to guess how many programmers and system administrators have been educated by the Linux development project, but it forms the core of what so many experts and newbies believe in terms of what an operating system should have in it, how that code is created, and how the systems software stack that rides atop of it is created and maintained."

Some newbies think that installing application in their linux is scary thing. Because they don’t know how exactly to do it.

Usually, because they only know one way to install application. If they face different way, they’ll confuse and desperate.In this tutorial, i’ll show you many different ways to install new application into your linux computer.

Once again we are back to pop the balloon of another Linux myth. This one is that Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) is not good to use.

For newbies to Linux, packages are software. In other words, the programs one uses like Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and OpenOffice.org office suite placed in a package for one’s chosen Linux distribution.

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My post on split-routing on OpenWRT has been incredibly popular, and led to many people implementing split-routing, whether or not they had OpenWRT.

While it's fun to have an exercise as a reader, it led to me having to help lots of newbies through porting that setup to a Debian / Ubuntu environment.

To save myself some time, here's how I do it on Debian:

maybe not easy, but when you want to learn, it is never easy.

Don't get me wrong on this - I love Linux and Ubuntu is one of my favorite distros, but there were some problems that temporarily turned me away when I was introduced to Ubuntu that I've noticed are affecting a lot of newbies, too....

Lifehacker features the Top Ten Command Line Tools . Good solid stuff for newbies and others who might've forgotten what the CLI can do for them.