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Re: Tired of being a n00b. Where should I being to move on?

oh, completely forget. check my signature again and click 'system' for a link to my system reference script. aside from just being able to look at a simple bash-script to learn from (first script i made when i started using linux), it also has loads of information on applications, commands etc which come in handy as a reference.
you could build a similar thing for yourself, so you have something to fall back on when you think 'how did i check the mounts again?' etc.

bash :: @script :: system :: fclean
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  • Registered: 2011-01-02
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Re: Tired of being a n00b. Where should I being to move on?

I feel these guys are pushing you a little too far, you don't need learn single thing you can about linux/unix, as that would be like trying to listen to every single music album released, it's just a waste of time. What I would reccomend is to just go with the flow, learn as you you travel in the *nix world, try stuff you see or hear about here, look up subjects on things that intrest you, don't be afraid to get your hands dirty and so forth, and don't rush... Even then all that stuff may or may not be nesscary, if you don't care to learn the inner workings of the operating system that's fine, many don't, you can just be a casual user who just seeks a diffrent platform.

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Re: Tired of being a n00b. Where should I being to move on?

AwesomeFist wrote:

I feel these guys are pushing you a little too far, you don't need learn single thing you can about linux/unix, as that would be like trying to listen to every single music album released, it's just a waste of time. What I would reccomend is to just go with the flow, learn as you you travel in the *nix world, try stuff you see or hear about here, look up subjects on things that intrest you, don't be afraid to get your hands dirty and so forth, and don't rush... Even then all that stuff may or may not be nesscary, if you don't care to learn the inner workings of the operating system that's fine, many don't, you can just be a casual user who just seeks a diffrent platform.

Exactly! Well said! big_smile

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Re: Tired of being a n00b. Where should I being to move on?

@mynis01: That was the most unsophisticated comment I've read here in a while. Really. And that means something.

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  • Registered: 2011-11-04
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Re: Tired of being a n00b. Where should I being to move on?

Wow brilliant response from all of you. Really appreciate the feedback. There's a hell of a lot of it lol! But it makes me see the point raised that if I ever need guidance, I can turn to you guys. I'm one of those people who likes theory then to apply. Something I'm working on but I think in this context it makes sense.

Hoping to be able to work with Linux more in the future, not only to solve PC problems but, if all goes well with my Uni applications, use what I've learnt to use Linux to create economic modeling programs or such. Long way off, seems that the language "R" is used for that sorta thing. Saw it on wikibooks/wikipedia. Did also mention licences can be around 200,000 for those products. Tasty.

@mynis01 and rhowaldt
Bash seems a sensible place to start. Terminal is intimidating but by the looks of the tutorials should clear things up quickly smile

@Awweb

...What? tongue One day maybe it'll be clear what I'm looking at.

@mynis01
sed seems really cool smile Definitely will move onto it after I get to grips with Bash and C (easier than it sounds I guess).

@.not
Life lesson there, something I'm trying to apply smile but we all know, Rome wasn't built in a day smile

@kowloonboy
Python's on the list too, eventually get there lol.

Thanks again

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  • Registered: 2011-10-13
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Re: Tired of being a n00b. Where should I being to move on?

You might as well put this in your list, too. RFC

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