Beginner Help
Assistance for Linux beginners.

Starting Out

• Windows to Linux: Beginner Startup Guide
• Linux Installation Brief Guide
• Common Linux Installation Issues and Their Solutions
• Choosing the Right Linux Distribution
• Beginner's Introduction to the KDE Desktop
• Basic Linux Hardware & Network Configuration
• Starting Processes in Fedora and SuSe
• Creating a Linux Boot Disk
• Guide to Dial-up Internet with Linux Fedora and SuSe
• Guide to DSL Internet with Linux Fedora and SuSe
• Most Popular Linux Questions Answered
• Basic Networking: Windows to Linux Fedora
• FEATURED Linux in a Windows Network with a SAMBA Server
• Fixing Installation Problems


Essential Commands

• Beginner Linux Commands
• Commands for Handling Files and Permissions
• Essential Commands for Guru Wanna-bees
• Commands for Linux Directories and Files
• FEATURED Beginning Commands for Server Administration
• Using Text Editors (Emacs, Vi)


Beginner Flavors

• Exploring Linux with Ubuntu
• Managing users in Ubuntu
• PCLinuxOS: A Windows User's Delight
• Kanotix Live-CD: Gentle Intro for Beginners


Why Linux

• Linux as a Tool for Windows Hardware Errors (Windows vs. Linux)
• Linux in Enterprise is Already Prime Time
• Killing the Five Myths Against Linux
• Top 10 Ways to Protect Your Linux Home System
• Out of the mouth of babes: Linux is Better
• Free Software: Understanding the Foundation to Linux Use
• Linux Works Even for Total Newbies
• Blame the Operating System
• Emergency Booting Windows PCs: Another Use for Linux Knoppix
• Picking a Linux Flavor for You
• Which Linux Flavor is Best? One Man's Answer
• Beginner Linux book made available for free
  

Articles on Linux
Using linux in business and other OP/EDs.

Community

• There is only one reason left why Windows exists (LinuxToday Editor's Pick)
• GNU/Linux Horizons: How OLPC May Impact the Future
• Seeing the Dawn of Vista by the Light of Open Source
• Will the Microsoft Empire Last Long?
• A Decade of Linux & Increasingly Stronger
• Hell freezing over or just another day in corporate candyland
• Ballmer on Patents: Swinging a Saber or a Salami?
• Linux in Enterprise is Already Prime Time
• Tech Writing in the Age of Open Source
• Open Source VS Windows: A Better Paradigm
• Linux Not Cause of Microsoft's Downfall
• Stratus Using Linux: True Fault Tolerant Servers
• Linux Job Want Ads Gone Mad?!
• Dealing with Anti-Linux Trolls
• Something's Amiss in the Linux Community
• The Migration Dilemma Resolved
• The Linux User Show: Interview of Rais, our senior editor
• Is Linux Un-American?
• Holiday Gift Ideas to Promote Linux
• Special Holiday Edition: Non technical


National Articles

• India's E-learning Portal Launches with OpenSource
• Malaysia's Strong OSS Growth in Servers & Desktops
• Substantial Growth in Asia-Pacific: India, China, Australia...
• The State of Linux: Substantial Growth in New Zealand
• Linux in Asia: India and China's Open Source Battle
• Microsoft's Approach May Isolate US Permanently


Business

• Linux in Business: The Desktop is Dying
• Dumping the Licensing Chaos with Linux
• Moving to Linux (featured on linuxtoday.com)
• Opportune Time to Switch to Linux (featured on ittoolbox.com)
• Getting Linux on to the Desktop (featured on desktoplinux.com)
• 25 Years After DOS: Lessons Learned for Linux
• Company Saves Big Using Linux


Education

• FEATURED Why Linux is the Logical Choice for the Classroom
• 45 Minutes to a Moodle Education Server
• Rescuing a School Technology Program
• Linux Essential to IT in Africa
• Killing the Five Myths Against Linux
• Which Linux is Best?
• Linux Defeats Microsoft Windows in Top 5

Humor Mixed with Reality
Using linux for fun.

• Granny Uses PCLinuxOS (Review article)
• Linux Can Make You Cool
• Linux Loving Men Are Sexier
• IT Job Titles Gone Wild HUMOR
• Top 10 Ways to Protect Your Home System humor
• Granny Finds Linux/KDE Easier Than Windows
• Granny Picks Linux Over Windows, OS/X, FreeBSD, see why...
• Linux Makes Granny Cry
• Granny Dumps MSOffice for StarOffice
• Even Granny Has Linux Installed
• Gus Talks Tough On Linux
• Gus Talks Tougher On Linux: Part II
• Linux at Its Best: Man, Machine, and a Migraine
• A Linux Ballad (sung to the tune of 'Jimmy Cracked Corn')
• Which Linux Flavor is Best? One Man's Answer before being beat up
• Linux Revolution: Two Men and a Machine in England

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