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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">All,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As I sometimes need the use a command
line or shell scripting in my employment, starting with the GUI was a
major diversion away from what I needed to learn. Counter wise, a
person needing only office applications need never learn a shell.
Linux has perhaps 6 GUIs in common use. As they differ greatly, a
GUI user using different Linux incarnations needs a plan for comfort
when switching distros. The good news for shell users is the 3 most
common derive from UNIX shells. They have a lot in common (at least
for the skills my various employers have wanted).</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Regards,</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Steven</p>
<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 11/3/08, Steve Herber <i><herber@thing.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Steve Herber <herber@thing.com><br>Subject: Re: [Gslug-general] Linux Education<br>To: "Travis" <travis.eeepc@gmail.com><br>Cc: Gslug-general@gslug.org<br>Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 2:01 AM<br><br><pre>I recommend:<br><br>In the Beginning was the Command Line<br><br>http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html<br><br>I would be the person offering you a nickel:<br><br>http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/<br><br>Use the command line to learn your way around unix. Use a gui when you<br>need graphics. When you want the power of unix, you will use the<br>command line. Otherwise you might just as well click away on the apple or <br>windows gui.<br><br>-- <br>Steve Herber<br>herber@thing.com<br><br><br>On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Travis
wrote:<br><br>> Michael_Faraday wrote:<br>>> ...<br>><br>> I want to learn my way around in the GUI first and then in the command<br>line.<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>Gslug-general mailing list<br>Gslug-general@gslug.org<br>http://lists.gslug.org/mailman/listinfo/gslug-general<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>