Hey, My Names Tracy and I have just found you guys. I have always been interested in alternatives to Windows OS and it wasn't until I bought a PC of my own and a close friend of mine suggested I ran Linux on it that I moved in this direction. I had seen more than enough of his computer and the way it looked and felt to know that this move was for me. At this point we installed Red Hat 9. Loved this. Was fab. Then came along Fedora and we swapped to that. Again loved the way it worked and felt so all was good. Time went on... My Sys-Admin (as I refer to him now) moved to Worcester and got involved with the Malvern LUG group and I have been a silent member of their mailing list for just over a year I think. I am now at the stage (ok have been for a while) where I would like to run Fedora from the Terminal window but am finding the commands difficult to structure. Add to this that my pc is at the moment dead (Motherboard failure) and I am waiting for a friend of mine to dig out an old one of his so I can get up and running again. I have Fedora 5 waiting to be installed and am looking forward to this very much. Sorry this has been a long post; promise to keep them short in future. I hope to be at the next meeting (but not tonight I am afraid) and hope that you guys will welcome a Fedora lass into the fold. Regards, Tracy x _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:26 +0100, Tracy Dickerson wrote:
Hey,
My Names Tracy and I have just found you guys.
Welcome to the list Tracy.
I am now at the stage (ok have been for a while) where I would like to run Fedora from the Terminal window but am finding the commands difficult to structure.
I'd suggest a good O'Reilly book on bash. Sadly the Alug library doesn't have such a thing at the moment. depending on what you want to achieve from the shell something like http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash3/index.html or http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bashckbk/index.html May be suitable.
Add to this that my pc is at the moment dead (Motherboard failure) and I am waiting for a friend of mine to dig out an old one of his so I can get up and running again. I have Fedora 5 waiting to be installed and am looking forward to this very much.
Nasty, If your friends motherboard turns out not to be suitable then it may be worth posting what you need to the Lug..some of us hoard a bit of kit and aren't adverse to exchanging it for beer (or money). Regards Wayne
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 15:26 +0100, Tracy Dickerson wrote:
Hey,
My Names Tracy and I have just found you guys. Welcome.
I am now at the stage (ok have been for a while) where I would like to run Fedora from the Terminal window but am finding the commands difficult to structure.
The traditional starting point for Bash scripting is: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/ Its a proper read but its quite good. (There's also a PDF at: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/Bash-Beginners-Guide.pdf). Cheers, Richard -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Hi Tracy Always nice to see a new face in place of the hairy old ones ;) On Friday 12 May 2006 09:18, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I am now at the stage (ok have been for a while) where I would like to run Fedora from the Terminal window but am finding the commands difficult to structure.
I'd suggest a good O'Reilly book on bash. Sadly the Alug library doesn't have such a thing at the moment.
As it so happens, I have a copy of "Learning the Bash Shell" (and the korn shell) - If you are local, I can loan either out.. Another book well worth grabbing is the Linux Cookbook by Schroder, also from O'Reilly - It covers a number of simple topics as well as the more advanced without treating the reader as an idiot or assuming a high level of expertise.
Add to this that my pc is at the moment dead (Motherboard failure)
Nasty, If your friends motherboard turns out not to be suitable then it may be worth posting what you need to the Lug..some of us hoard a bit of kit and aren't adverse to exchanging it for beer (or money).
I have a couple of old motherboards kicking around here - Depending on processor/memory, swapping for a beer is a definite.. Regards, Paul.
On Thursday 11 May 2006 15:26, Tracy Dickerson wrote:
Hey,
My Names Tracy and I have just found you guys.
Hello Tracy.
I have always been interested in alternatives to Windows OS and it wasn't until I bought a PC of my own and a close friend of mine suggested I ran Linux on it that I moved in this direction. I had seen more than enough of his computer and the way it looked and felt to know that this move was for me. At this point we installed Red Hat 9. Loved this. Was fab. Then came along Fedora and we swapped to that. Again loved the way it worked and felt so all was good. Time went on... My Sys-Admin (as I refer to him now) moved to Worcester and got involved with the Malvern LUG group and I have been a silent member of their mailing list for just over a year I think.
In which case you'll fit in well around here - the ALUG lurker community seems massive. :)
I am now at the stage (ok have been for a while) where I would like to run Fedora from the Terminal window but am finding the commands difficult to structure.
If you're sans pooter right now, I'll bet Norwich Library can yield some good reading material on this - last time I was there, they had quite a few such books, IIRC.
Add to this that my pc is at the moment dead (Motherboard failure) and I am waiting for a friend of mine to dig out an old one of his so I can get up and running again. I have Fedora 5 waiting to be installed and am looking forward to this very much.
Good luck with that, and welcome. -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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