how long will it take to read a linux OS manual?

5 Comments

1. Rocky says:

   13. December 2009 at 11:43

   How fast of a reader are you?
   How long is the manual?
2. Sani says:

   13. December 2009 at 11:43

   Which linux are you talking about? It depends on how fast a learner you are. I think that you learn best by doing (ie. install the OS and start playing around with it).
3. zeplinepoponetris says:

   13. December 2009 at 11:43

   There is no singular "Linux manual", there are however many books published about Linux and Linux related topics, different Linux OS user guides (ex. Ubuntu user guides, Gentoo user guides, etc.) and documentation for almost every piece of software.
4. seegeedubya says:

   13. December 2009 at 11:43

   You can read a decent OS manual in a day or so. How long to completely understand it? Completely? Years. Don’t try to take it all in at once. Focus first on installation and basic networking — you need that just to get up and running (fortunately most distributions make those parts easy), and then start looking kernel tuning, operations, patch management and configuration management, file sharing, application serving, log handling, security, user management, and the rest.
5. Marko S says:

   13. December 2009 at 11:43

   You need some basic understanding about Linux before you install one. Like how Linux filesystems and ways of doing things differ from the Windows ones. You can find loads off tutorials and how-tos from the net.

   If you will be using desktop environments like GNOME or KDE, you don’t actually need that much instructions to use them, they are pretty intuitive for a Windows user – GNOME especially is recommended for Windows users.

   If you want to do stuff from the command line and console, you need to familiarize yourself with some basic bash shell commands.