Welcome to the Linux Newbies Homepage!

Glad you could stop by Linux Newbies! This is a site where newbies to Linux can catch up on important essentials so they can help other newbies to Linux. Thus they can become "Journeymen Linux users"! Note: this page is oriented toward the Red Hat Linux distribution, though other distributions are also highly applicable, except where they're not. Here is a listing of areas of instruction for this page:

Getting Familiar With Linux

  1. Overcoming Command Line Culture Shock
  2. Learning Bash (20 Essential Commands and Utilities)
  3. Learning About Resource Files
  4. Learning the File System Standard
  5. Learning the Boot Process
  6. Customizing the X Windows Startup

Learning the Basic Tools

  1. Bash Tips, Tricks, and Scripts
  2. Using X File Managers
  3. Backups and Directory Mgt with tar
  4. Basic TCP/IP
  5. Vi, Joe, Jed, and Pico
  6. Learning Emacs
  7. The GNU C Compiler

Learning Elementary System Admin

  1. Creating and Managing Accounts
  2. Managing the Log files
  3. Compiling a Custom Kernel Painlessly
  4. Package Management with RPM
  5. Upgrading Software with RPM
  6. Upgrading Libraries with RPM
  7. Upgrading Kernels with RPM
  8. System Security

Customizing Appearances with Window Managers

  1. Using FVWM
  2. Using TheNextLevel
  3. Using AfterStep
  4. Using GNUStep

Connecting to the Internet

  1. Configuring the /etc files
  2. Creating Your PPP Script
  3. Connecting with SLIP and DIP
  4. Installing and configuring Web Clients
  5. Using E-Mail and Mailing Lists
  6. Using procmail
  7. Using IRC Clients
  8. Using Exotic Internet Applications

Using Productivity Applications

  1. Trying out Free Office Suites
  2. Comparing Spreadsheet Applications
  3. Exploring the Wide World of Editors
  4. Using Terminal Applications
  5. Using Graphics Applications
  6. Using WABI and DOSemu
  7. Learning Groff
  8. Learning LaTeX
  9. Learning Ghostview and XDVI
  10. Learning Linuxdoc SGML (SGML Toolkit)
  11. Creating HTML from LaTeX, SGML, and from Scratch

Building a Home Network

  1. Configuring Your Box as an Intranet Server
  2. LAN Security
  3. Connecting Your LAN to the Internet
  4. Putting Linux on your Laptop
  5. The Future of Linux: The Brave New World