AV is a little far for me too. Since 3 of us live in SE metro maybe we can find someplace mutually agreeable. I don't have a laptop yet so wifi isn't a requirement for me, but would be fun to watch others browse with the various distros... On 6/20/06, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > 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. >