banjo Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Is it just me, or is this directory a well-hidden secret? /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en The directory has a tutorial in it for everything! It has taken me months to find this! I do not remember reading about this in my NOObie docs. Or maybe it just takes a while for me to "get it". Anyway, any NOObies out there who need a tutorial on just about any subject can probably find it in there without spending the rest of your life in Google. Doh! :roll: Banjo (_)=='=~ P.S. If this is common knowledge, I am accepting dopeslaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Takmadeus Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 hmmm... actually there's a link to it in kde and gnome, under documentation; there's also a linux manual, which doesn't only have tricks, but a complete reference on how to switch from windblows to linux and all, and also has tips for commonly used software under linux..... which is also under documentation..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germ Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Yep, lots of good info there. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagrosse Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 AND for the Great Grand PooBah of HowTo sites there's always http://www.tldp.org/ The Linux Documentation Project Or you can download all the newest ones and update the ones in your distro. Now, the one caveat that you should know, from one n00bie to another, is that alot of them come from RedHat or some other distro and in My experience when you go to look for a file or drectory to edit or check to see if it's written right, it ain't there. I know that this may sound detracting to some of the more experienced members here, but I'd like to save you from some of the exasperation that I went through and let you know what to expect. One of the major aggravations that I had in dealing with Mandrake was not only my own ignorance but no place that I had searched through said anything about the directory structure being different from one distro to another, especially regarding the HowTo's. Forwarned is........... Admin might delete this as being negative but so be it. It's something a n00b should know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 I think that many users who use manual package selection, do not select to install documentation and live in ignorance of this treasure chest (I did ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted September 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2003 Well, I did install it......... and then I didn't know where it was... I did eventually find the links to the directory right there in the KDE menu under Documentation So there you go. Re. the differences in file structures...... being an old Unix hack I do tend to poke around and cat out all manner of things just to see what is in 'em. One of the best places to look is in the /proc directory, which did not exist on the Unix systems that I first learned on. A lot has changed since 1976......... ... oops............. did I say that out loud?.... Well, this old dog is learning new tricks every day. I am soooo glad that I am bailing out of fnWindoze. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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