On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 13:51 -0400, Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Lisi, Brian, Lee, Joe, Neal, Dom, and Ralf, [snip]
Since you've got knowledge about computers, it will be easy for you to switch to Linux. You should take a look at "shell globbing" and take a look at some beginners guide for "shell scripts". To handle Debian packages by a GUI I recommend to use Synaptic. There are three easy to remember shell commands that are very helpful: top killall -9 NAME_OF_AN_APPLICATION hwinfo Instead of top there are derivatives of top you might prefer and instead of hwinfo there are different other useful commands, but IMO top and hwinfo are very helpful for a beginner, I'm still using them today. killall -9, perhaps with some additional switches is a command that's important for every user. Assumed something wicked does happen, run top, it might show you what happens. If there for example is a process busy, can't be stopped anymore, a killall -9 NAME most of the times will finish it. hwinfo gives information about hardware. You also should take a look at "common linux shortcuts" some are equal to Windows others are for Linux only. COMMAND_NAME -h or --help and man COMMAND_NAME does show information, but can be cryptic for beginners. Getting good results for Internet investigations and understanding --help and man(pages) given time will become easy for you too. You should find an editor you like, that can be used without a GUI. IMO the easiest editor is mcedit, I was a vi(m) user in the past, but switched to mcedit a while ago. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1350330861.2252.19.camel@localhost.localdomain
