Tutorials, guides, etc.

[coroner]

hi everyone.

Found couple errors text in "How to install xorg on top of Salix core" . Since salixos 13.1 icewm not exist in repository. Оne string repeat twice.

To make that window manager the default for your user, do

cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinit.icewm ~/.xinitrc

for icewm, or

cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinit.icewm ~/.xinitrc

for fluxbox, or similar for any other window manager, you get the point.

P.S. Sorry, i can not paste url yet.

[mimosa]

http://linuxzoo.net/

This looks like an interesting project, combining introductory tutorials with a cloud-based VM to practise in. You just create an account and telnet in. The great thing is it's very hands-on, with lots of exercises - something I've often felt was lacking in much otherwise excellent documentation online. The exercises are interactive in the sense that the webpage checks what you've done in your VM.

[Shador]

How does this relate? Especially as the old post is relatively old already?

[mimosa]

Stuff that might be helpful for beginners or those interested in learning about this or that. For that reason, I think, this thread was bumped up to the top of the board. If any of the devs thinks an item is particularly good, its URL gets included in the first post, which now has a number of good links.

This particular item interested me more for the concept than the content - though there are some bits I really liked!

[Akuna]

Yes, this is a nice addition to the list. The exercise and practice it offers can certainly be useful for beginners.
In fact, I used the sister SQLzoo link quite recently to reinforce a course I was taking on database.

[Shador]

Stuff that might be helpful for beginners or those interested in learning about this or that. For that reason, I think, this thread was bumped up to the top of the board. If any of the devs thinks an item is particularly good, its URL gets included in the first post, which now has a number of good links.

This particular item interested me more for the concept than the content - though there are some bits I really liked!

Ooops, sorry, must have missed the other pages and the titles on my tiny smartphone display. My apologies, just ignore that comment.


In that case, I've got an addition too.
If you want to try out programming this could be a very easy solution without much fiddling. The tour is more aimed at programmers though. But you can try out other code as well without needing to install anything or messing with compilers, ides and stuff.
http://golang.org/
http://tour.golang.org

If you're serious about it, you won't get around setting up a environment locally though.

[mimosa]

Cool!

If you're serious about it, you won't get around setting up a environment locally though.

I've seen things like this for Python that were slower, and clunky. But I predict that before long, this sort of thing will work much, much better.

[caitlyn]

Here is my problem on solving NVIDIA display problems after installation:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2012/04/solving-display-problems-with.html

I'll break the Salix OS specific parts into two wiki entries, one for the GeForce 6150SE and one for chipsets not supported by nouveau at all. Hopefully I'll have some time in the next few days to get that done.

[maximus]

Not sure if I'll have the time to complete this any time soon but this looks like a great book for learning the basics of python as well as programming in general. The author is selling ebooks and physical books but provides a complete HTML version for free.

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

The author also provides free HTML versions of books for learning C, Ruby, SQL and Regular expressions and the CLI at the main site:

http://learncodethehardway.org/

[zazlox]

here is some useful ebooks from ebookfinder search engine :

linux & unix
http://en.bookfi.org/g/linux+and+unix

bash script
http://en.bookfi.org/g/bash%20script

slackware
http://en.bookfi.org/g/slackware

command line
http://en.bookfi.org/s/?q=linux+commands&e=1&t=0